Follow up to Data Centers Exposed – The New York Times – The Cloud Has Sound: The Unrelenting and Unseen Cost of A.I. Data Centers [unlocked article]. “Yes, the cloud has a sound, and some who live closest to data centers that emit the noise have reached their wit’s end trying to block it out. Residents in three small cities last month filed lawsuits against data centers specifically about noise.”

See also The New York Times – D.O.J. Seeks to Halt Air Pollution Lawsuit Against xAI Data Center [unlocked article]. “In an unusually aggressive move, the Justice Department told a federal court in Mississippi that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has the right to run dozens of polluting gas-burning turbines in the state despite not having permits for them. The Justice Department late on Monday said that the court should throw out a lawsuit against xAI that was brought by the NAACP claiming that the turbines violate the Clean Air Act. The suit threatens national security by “seeking to shut off the power supply for artificial-intelligence innovation that supports the Department of War’s military operations,” according to the memo, which was signed by Stanley Woodward Jr., associate attorney general and the No. 3 official in the department. The memo also argued that the federal government should have unchallenged authority to stop environmental lawsuits brought by private groups or individuals…”