Documented or reported noise concern vs modeled noise at nearest residential cluster
Dots sized by current powered IT capacity (MW), colored by modeled noise source.
Twenty-five data centers plotted by estimated modeled outdoor facility noise at the nearest accepted residential cluster, in dBA, against documented or reported noise concern from 1 to 5. Dots are sized by current powered IT capacity. Cooling is blue; routine onsite generation is orange. Seventeen sites score 1, four score 2, Atlanta scores 3, two score 4, and Colossus 2 scores 5. Estimates are not sound measurements.