• REDACTED@infosec.pubOP
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    28 days ago

    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.

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      28 days ago

      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

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      26 days ago

      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.

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        26 days ago

        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.