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Holy shit, dizziness causes data centers?!
The delay implies on the other direction. Let’s see if dizziness reduces a bit in 6 months.
But it really doesn’t.
You could replace number of data centers with total number of Taylor Swift songs released and get that same idea. Taylor Swift music existing causes dizziness, and it must be stopped.
Or you could replace number of data centers with “Sean Connery alive?” and decide dizziness has been going up since he died. He was somehow guarding the world against becoming dizzy, and we lost that protection when he passed. :/
Putting two random things on a chart like this doesn’t actually show or imply anything, other than that the person who made it likely wants you to believe there’s some kind of connection.
Eh…
It doesn’t get anything similar to the same result.
You are trying to say it’s a coincidence, and that’s probably correct. But it’s perfectly possible that the interest in datacenters leads to an interest in dizziness, or that they are related by some hidden variable.
… You seem to be assuming Google search frequencies are the only reasonable metric to measure the increase of a thing in the world.
The chances of this actually being connected is probably near zero (since rising dizziness is global, but datacenters are mostly in few countries), but still felt funny enough to post.
Randomly stumbled upon this while researching why are so many people around lately feeling dizzy.
You ever spin in a circle? You do it a few times you don’t really notoce, you do it a lot, younget dizzy.
The earth has been spinning in a lot of cirxles, and we are starting to cross into the “do it a lot” range of spins.
– Calvin’s Dad
Actually there is a proven causal connection:
Infrasound.
Data centers make a lot of that, and that does cause/exacerbate dizziness and disorientation.
Now, what proportion of increasing dizziness is caused by more data centers?
Impossible to tell from this meagre data set, likely an insubstantial amount… my money would be on long covid + its really fucking hot more often.
EDIT: derp, ivan beat me to it.
Please cite some sources that show that infrasound causes/exacerbates dizziness or disorientation (or see my other comments in this thread). There is no conclusive evidence to support negative health effects from infrasound.
It’s not just dizinessIt seems you’ve discovered a real correlation here!
… it’s called “cold season” for a reason, and lots of people will be searching for common ailments at the same time.
That doesn’t explain the huge spike over the past 6 months, and cold season has been over for about 5 of those months.
Not cold season alone, for fuck sake. Seasonal allergies, the whole lot. And the big spike you’re seeing is because you failed to zoom and actually look at the last 6 months.
End of May, beginning of June there were a lot of searches, then it died down. I’m all for conspiracy theories, but at least take the time to apply a tiny bit of logic.
I’d expect to see a spike every year if this was a seasonal or annual occurrence
Up 70% over last year
I mean f**k AI and massive datacenters near residential areas but I think some of this could be nocebo
Over 30 years in data centers, no dizziness. I do have a deep contempt on the amount of waste and it has grown over those 30 years…
Conclusion: datacenters are caused by dizziness
Well infra sound isnt audible but does damage the body.
Sort of how radiation is invisible but still damaged the body. And takes a while to show.
It works very similarly in infrasound except it’s a different kind of damage.
It’s known to cause cardiovascular damage and organ damage as well as dizziness and damage to hearing organs and vestibular system.
Please cite some sources
Infrasound in Biology and Medicine: Insights into Mechanisms, Health Outcomes and Research Perspectives-A Narrative Review
Palak Kapoor, Renu Bala Yadav, Neha Agrawal, Savita Gaur, Rajesh Arora
Noise and Health 27 (129), 676-691, 2025
Quick Google scholar search.
I was under the impression most scientific minded people were aware of this.
There are YouTube videos spreading awareness of infrasound. It’s a common talking point about the hazards of data centers.
And fracking.
Which also creates it.
It’s not even new research. This one from 2017
Infrasound‐induced hemodynamics, ultrastructure, and molecular changes in the rat myocardium Zhaohui Pei, Hanfei Sang, Ruiman Li, Pingxi Xiao, Jiangui He, Zhiqiang Zhuang, Miaozhang Zhu, Jingzao Chen, Hong Ma Environmental Toxicology: An International Journal 22 (2), 169-175, 2007
The Kapoor article cited many other studies that actually looked at audible sound and noise pollution. It also cited several articles that conclude that evidence of symptoms directly related to infrasound exposure are mostly case studies and anecdotal evidence and that more research is needed. The authors even state in the article itself, “It is still not unambiguously established that low-level exposure to infrasound always leads to adverse consequences at the organ, tissue, cellular and molecular level.”
As for the Zhaohui article, please consider this article that discusses how average infrasound that we are exposed to day to day (even from sources such as regular passenger cars) exceeds the thresholds that are said to induce negative myocardial effects.
Can Infrasound from Wind Turbines Affect Myocardial Contractility? A critical Review
Just because it’s being talked about on youtube does not mean the research backs it up.
Many studies on infrasound are related to wind turbines, which produce a similar level of infrasound to data centers. Consider the following study that found no link between infrasound and negative health effects:
And multiple large scale reviews done by governmental organizations across the world:
Systematic review of the human health effects of wind farms
Understanding the Evidence: Wind Turbine Noise
The Potential Health Impact of Wind Turbines
Infrasound Does Not Explain Symptoms Related to Wind Turbines
Infrasound is generated by both natural sources (ex: severe weather, ocean waves, whales) and man-made sources (ex: data centers, wind turbines, diesel engines). Despite the recent discussion around data centers, infrasound exposure is not new, and has not been shown to cause negative health effects.
Fuck data centers and every negative environmental and societal effect they have (including established issues with audible noise pollution). However, health impacts from infrasound are not one of them.
