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Marion Burgess, Honorary Associate Professor, School of Built Environment, UNSW

Are data centres actually noisy, and is this bad for our health?

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In the United States, areas such as Michigan have been hotspots for residents pushing back against data centre construction in their neighbourhoods. Now, similar concerns about noise – and potential health impacts – are gaining traction in Australia.

But we currently have very little data to link environmental noise from data centres to health effects. And we also can’t assume the US and Australia impose the same limits on industrial noise.

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