{"id":917079,"date":"2026-07-02T21:15:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/the-cloud-has-sound-the-unrelenting-and-unseen-cost-of-ai-data-centres\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T21:15:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:15:57","slug":"the-cloud-has-sound-the-unrelenting-and-unseen-cost-of-ai-data-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/the-cloud-has-sound-the-unrelenting-and-unseen-cost-of-ai-data-centres\/","title":{"rendered":"The cloud has sound: The unrelenting and unseen cost of AI data centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-test-ui=\"container\" id=\"fusion-app\">\n<header>\n<nav><\/nav>\n<\/header>\n<p><main id=\"main\" role=\"main\" data-test-ui=\"main\"><\/p>\n<article data-test-ui=\"v2-article v2-article--sidebar-hidden\">\n<section data-test-ui=\"v2-article-section-top\">\n<header data-test-ui=\"article__header\" data-ref-group=\"header\">\n<div data-test-ui=\"article__header-info\" data-ref-group=\"author\">\n<p><span data-test-ui=\"author--name\">Adeel Hassan<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-test-ui=\"distributor--name\">New York Times<\/span><span data-test-ui=\"distributor-meta-divider\">\u00b7<\/span><\/p>\n<p><time data-test-ui=\"author-display--date\">17 Jun, 2026 10:12 PM<\/time><span data-test-ui=\"author-read-time\"><span><\/span>8 mins to read<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A data centre in Lowell, Massachusetts, is abutted by homes. The site was once the Lowell Bleachery and Dye Works, and then for six decades the Prince Spaghetti factory. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<section data-test-ui=\"article-top-body\">\n<p class><b>As tech giants rush to build infrastructure, some residents who live near data centres say a constant low-frequency vibration is ruining their health and homes.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class>\n         <span>The heartbeat of the artificial intelligence economy sounds like a low-frequency thrum of a neighbour\u2019s central air-conditioning unit, an airplane flying overhead at high altitude<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/main><\/div>\n<p> Adeel Hassan <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/world\/the-cloud-has-sound-the-unrelenting-and-unseen-cost-of-ai-data-centres\/premium\/Y47DHLPO35DOBEDTQBGWCCGLS4\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adeel Hassan New York Times \u00b7 17 Jun, 2026 10:12 PM 8 mins to read A data centre in Lowell, Massachusetts, is abutted by homes. The site was once the Lowell Bleachery and Dye Works, and then for six decades the Prince Spaghetti factory. Photo \/ Getty Images As tech giants rush to build infrastructure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":917080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4441,2027],"tags":[7474,9251],"class_list":["post-917079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cloud","category-sound","tag-cloud","tag-sound"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}