Earlier this month, we brought you the story of a data center in the sleepy Michigan town of Dowagiac. Beset by the 30 megawatt tech facility, residents in the otherwise quiet burg were forced to live under the relentless screech of a massive cooling operation, prompting a lawsuit over excessive noise.
At the time, footage from a TikTok video — showing volume readings reaching 60 decibels in one resident’s front yard — captured a portion of the noise, a horrible whine emitted by the data center 24/7.
Now, fresh audio recorded by ABC7‘s apparently more sensitive noise equipment demonstrates the full extent of the screech, which you really have to hear with your own ears to believe:
Asked to put the noise into words, one resident told ABC7 it “sounds like someone set up a vacuum, like in your living room… and they just left it on and walked out.”
