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Some_Emo_Chick@Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.world

Michigan residents sue AI data center emitting noise 24/7 — company fined for industrial noise ordinance violations, offers to buy homes from residents

Residents of Dowagiac, Michigan, just filed a lawsuit against a data center that allegedly generates a high-pitched whining sound — and has done so 24/7 for the past two years.

The data center, which is owned by Alliance Cloud Services LLC, a subsidiary of Hyperscale Data, used to be an industrial building that sat behind a row of pine trees across the street from the most affected residents, according to ABC-affiliateWXYZ. The site started development in 2018 and was eventually turned into a cryptocurrency mining center in 2021. But in 2024, something changed drastically when the building started emitting noise pollution around the clock. Residents say it sounds like a vacuum cleaner in their living room, and the company has offered to buy up homes from unhappy residents.

www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/it-sounds-like-someone-set-up-a-vacuum-like-in-your-living-room-michigan-residents-sue-ai-data-center-emitting-noise-24-7-company-fined-for-industrial-noise-ordinance-violations-offers-to-buy-homes-from-residents
Meta data centerTom's Hardware'It sounds like someone set up a vacuum, like in your living room': Michigan residents sue AI data center emitting noise 24/7 — company fined for industrial noise ordinance violations, offers to buy homes from residentsSome residents have been there for almost 100 years

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chobeat@chobeat@lemmy.ml

Wikimedia Will Not Voluntarily Recognize Union a Supermajority of Its Workers Want

www.404media.co/wikimedia-waits-until-after-its-massive-conference-to-say-it-wont-voluntarily-recognize-union/
404 MediaWikimedia Will Not Voluntarily Recognize Union a Supermajority of Its Workers WantThe Wikimedia Foundation waited until immediately after its largest annual conference to say it wouldn't voluntarily recognize its workers' union.

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gandalf_der_12te@gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org

Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like Reddit

When you post on reddit, instagram etc. you’re giving the company your valuable data. (And it often is valuable, you put your thoughts into it and all that). Consider if you take 15 minutes to create value content, you’d get paid $5 or sth if you were doing it commercially. Now all that value is donated to big tech companies. (that’s the only reason why they have value at all.)

So what’s the problem with that? The problem is that reddit and others can instantaneously put your years-long effort behind a paywall. I’m not joking. Look at these:

when i want to see content on reddit (for research) or instagram (for local community) they don’t allow me to see the data that users have contributed. Reddit claims that it blocks VPNs for “security reasons”, meanwhile i’m using VPNs in browser’s incognito mode to not be tracked. Instagram wants you to sign in sothat they amass more users and can take leverage of the network effect even more.

I can understand restricting who can post to limit bot activity, but reading must always be possible. After all, it’s our data. That’s exactly what happens when you give your data to big companies to “communicate with other people”: your data becomes a source of income for them, at our expense.

karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/avoid-web-forums/
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Artwork@artwork@lemmy.world
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Try the New Firefox Design in Nightly – Firefox Nightly News

It’s still Firefox, now with a more cohesive look and feel across tabs, menus, panels, and other browser surfaces. You’ll notice softer tab shapes, a warmer color palette, updated icons, and – after hearing from many of you – the return of Compact Mode and new theme options to make Firefox your own.

Source

While I do heartfelt appreciate everyone who works on the ineffably marvelous project as Mozilla Firefox, I do also hope the marvel will still have options to customize it with CSS, and disable all the “AI” in it, too.

Meanwhile, I do wish you success, stability, and peace!

Related:
- old.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/wiki/index/tutorials#… - firefoxcss-store.github.io

blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2026/07/27/new-firefox-design/
Firefox Nightly NewsTry the New Firefox Design in Nightly – Firefox Nightly NewsThis past May, we shared our vision for the future of Firefox. Starting today, you can try out the next design evolution of Firefox in Nightly. It's still Firefox, now ...

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eicker@eicker@lemmy.world

Nvidia and OpenAI in talks for up to $250 billion dollar backstop to fund AI infrastructure plans

www.cnbc.com/2026/07/27/nvidia-and-openai-in-talks-for-up-to-250-billion-dollar-ai-backstop.html
CNBCNvidia and OpenAI in talks for up to $250 billion dollar backstop to fund AI infrastructure plansThe backstop would let OpenAI raise debt for a data center campus in Pike County, Ohio, on the strength of Nvidia's credit.

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sanitation@sanitation@lemmy.today

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got to buy MSG’s privacy. Her fans aren’t so lucky.

www.ms.now/opinion/taylor-swift-and-travis-kelce-got-to-buy-msgs-privacy-her-fans-arent-so-lucky
MS NOWOpinion | Taylor Swift was able to buy her privacy at MSG. What about the rest of us?Reports that Madison Square Garden temporarily shut off its facial recognition system for Swift’s wedding expose a glaring problem with how the elite wield and control mass surveillance.