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Microsoft hit with class-action lawsuit over "unreasonable and excessive noise" from datacenter

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Microsoft Fairwater Datacentre.

Microsoft finds itself on the receiving end of a lawsuit about "unreasonable and excessive noise" allegedly emitting from the tech giant's Fairwater datacenter in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. The suit seeks compensation for damages, though the amount asked for is unspecified.

The Fairwater datacenter was unveiled in September 2025. At the time, it was the largest and most advanced datacenter. The site launched with NVIDIA’s GB200 GPUs. Each rack can process 865,000 tokens per second.

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