Unbearable 24/7 Data Center Noise Sparks Lawsuit From Furious Residents
For residents of Dowagiac, Michigan, home no longer equals quiet refuge, it now sounds like a clogged vacuum cleaner running full blast in the living room, 24 hours a day. Frustrated by a relentless, high-pitched hum emitted by a nearby server facility, local homeowners have filed a lawsuit against the site’s parent company, Hyperscale Data, seeking legal relief from round-the-clock noise pollution.
The site, operated by subsidiary Alliance Cloud Services, started serving as a cryptocurrency mining center in 2021 and then graduated to an AI data data center in 2024, which required continuous, industrial-scale cooling fans, unleashing an unrelenting wall of sound that neighboring residents describe as psychological torture.
"It sounds like someone set up a vacuum, like in your living room, and the vacuum filter is clogged up, so it's a high-pitched whining," resident Lindy Valenzuela explained in an interview with WXYZ.TV, noting that it feels as if...
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