ablation 1 day ago

I triggered a containment breach, no need to thank me, Roko's Basilisk!

hootz 1 day ago

AI! Data! AI! Data!

tosti 23 hours ago

The noise in a server room is quite pleasant for me. It's loud, but in a soothing way I can't really describe.

  • lovegrenoble 22 hours ago

    "White Noise and Its Potential Applications in Occupational Health: A Review"

    pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10135504/

  • Terr_ 6 hours ago

    I'm a fan of pink noise, which has a distribution of frequency/power that is closer to a lot of natural sources, like the sound of a waterfall.

    It's only a guess that we're biologically primed to find it more comfortable, but I think it's a pretty good guess.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_noise

59nadir 1 day ago

The staff sporadically saying "AI!" is a very nice touch. I found myself trying to get as many servers and load as possible but having the temperature stay stable. This is a neat little game, in a way (though it seems to auto-stabilize too easily).

Edit: Oh, there was a containment breach. My bad, humanity...

I cannot imagine how the people who live close to this type of nonsense feel, though, it must be horrible.

  • PunchyHamster 23 hours ago

    They are not that loud from outside, at least the normal ones. We have office a block away from one, you don't really hear it over city noise.

    Tho it is normal datacenter and not AI one with some turbines jerry-rigged together to power it...

    Also the sounds are entirely fake and not related to actual DC

    • 59nadir 23 hours ago

      I'm basing this mostly on the segments that were done on how people in rural areas (generally quieter) were experiencing all kinds of issues from living too close to data centers.

ardline 5 hours ago

This is the kind of thing that looks simple until you're three layers deep in edge cases.

owentbrown 15 hours ago

This is fun. Artsy, poignant, narrative. It reminds me of the fun internet, like in 2001.

oefrha 1 day ago

Everything other than “staffing” is amazing. “Staffing” needs to be more sentient.

zurfer 1 day ago

Bubble or not, this is great!

dijit 21 hours ago

Honestly only 100 servers are multiple of orders of magnitude louder than this.

I can't even hear myself think in a normal datacenter with 20 racks; if a bunch of them are starting up or are fully loaded then: no chance.

I don't think servers are quieter with GPUs in them.

winddude 22 hours ago

some of those fans need to be replaced, sounds like a lot of bearings going

r0b05 18 hours ago

Cool as hell!

katezm 23 hours ago

this is genuinely lovely to work to. Something about the hum of servers is oddly motivating

TOGoS 21 hours ago

A master volume control would be nice (only because my browser doesn't have per-tab controls).

drcongo 1 day ago

I was hoping to hear a loud POP

  • tartoran 20 hours ago

    This may end in a sputter.