20 miles northwest of our nation's capital
I just received my third ticket for supposedly not stopping at the corner of West Guide and Research for the right turn on red. I don’t believe these camers are always correct. I’d have to be idiot by now to not stop! Has anyone else encountered this problem? They have financial incentive to lie constantly; … Read more
All claims sourced with mainstream / scientific/peer-reviewed papers. The planned five massive server warehouses would admittedly consume the equivalent of 75% of current county residential electrical use. 360 MW concentrated at one Dickerson site raises legitimate ground-current / power-quality questions, especially in a rural/agricultural setting. A 360 MW data-center cluster is large enough that ground … Read more
Exploring potential psy/para aspects — Could dreadful Tommyknockers spread due to datacenters? Consider Michelle Gibson’s considerable esoteric research into “circuit-board earth”. “What datacenters will likely do is sicken the residents, make the area unlivable, and destroy any inherent resale value beyond that of scrap-land for eventual government takeover.” Table of Contents ——— The New Machine … Read more
I am a county commissioner. My soul is not for sale. These corporations are getting NDAs with our townships and villages to conduct land purchases secretly. When I became aware of it, I brought the health concerns to the villages/townships in my district. In Michigan, we are not allowed to ban data centers as a … Read more
Datacenters are dense microcosms of competing regulated power supplies. Every server, CPU, GPU, storage shelf, switch, and board-level voltage regulator is constantly fighting to hold its own output rails steady — 12 VDC, 5 VDC, 3.3 VDC, 1.1 VDC, whatever — despite rapidly changing compute loads and evermore imperfect upstream grid power. The problem is … Read more
We’ve been noticing minor power blips, blinks, increasingly growing over the past 10 months or so in Darnestown, Maryland – no enough to trigger UPS switchover, but enough to notice something is changing, something is wrong.. No official explanation given, until now. — “Just before 8 a.m. the electricity flickered on and off for about … Read more
“Many residents say they learned about nearby developments only after construction had already begun. Their reports describe concerns about water consumption, electricity demand, constant mechanical noise, land use, electronic waste, and pressure on local infrastructure.” Erin Brockovich’s new data center map crashed twice in 72 hours. The environmental advocate says she woke up one morning … Read more
A CAFR/ACFR is a government’s most complete annual financial report. It combines auditedfinancial statements, management explanation, fund-level detail, debt and pension disclosures,and long-term statistical trends. It is one of the best documents for understanding a publicentity’s true financial condition. Renamed in 2020 from CAFR (Comprehensive Annual Financial Report) reportedly due to CAFR sounding too similar … Read more
DATACENTER ALLEY — Greg Pirio, a Sterling, Virginia resident warns about seriously degraded quality of life in the neighborhood. Living just 150 yards from the Vantage 2 datacenter, residents report intolerable noise pollution caused by the facility’s onsite jet turbine power plants. DATACENTER ALLEY — Greg Pirio, a Sterling, Virginia resident warns about seriously degraded … Read more
PEPCO Maryland Shocking 10x electricity cost since 2010 – How to escape – How to reduce Electrical Deregulation done ~Y2K — For Datacenters Directly Related