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‘It’s all you can hear’: New Jersey lawsuit takes on datacenter’s noise pollution
Lawsuit alleges sound is nuisance for up to one mile around datacenter as residents experience noises from DataOne
It’s a sound Steve Brown, a 63-year-old Vineland, New Jersey resident, literally hears in his sleep: BGRRRRRRRRRRR.
It drones, oscillates, growls – these are machines at industrial scale. Are they generators? Pumps? Fans? Brown does not know what equipment causes the sound or why. He only knows two things: he’s tired of it, and it’s coming from DataOne – a 350MW datacenter under construction a little more than a mile from his home of 25 years.
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Jessica Glenza · Fri, Aug 28, 2026, 4:00 AM
US news | The Guardian
Lawsuit alleges sound is nuisance for up to one mile around datacenter as residents experience noises from DataOne
It’s a sound Steve Brown, a 63-year-old Vineland, New Jersey resident, literally hears in his sleep: BGRRRRRRRRRRR.
It drones, oscillates, growls – these are machines at industrial scale. Are they generators? Pumps? Fans? Brown does not know what equipment causes the sound or why. He only knows two things: he’s tired of it, and it’s coming from DataOne – a 350MW datacenter under construction a little more than a mile from his home of 25 years.
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