‘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 … Read more

College football is booming, chaotic and more confusing than ever

America’s second biggest sporting obsession returns this weekend, which means marching bands, 100,000-seat stadiums, ancient rivalries and, increasingly, the operating model of a sport being invented in real time Is college football healthy? It’s a seductive question, one that now comes up every year around this time. Actually, it never recedes, so it’s just with … Read more