DC Placement Concerns
Background:
Where I live, there is a developer who intends to build a Data Center around what is currently farmland, which the property owners surrounding the site are not interested in having. However, there is talks in the State legislature of mandating thay self-sufficient Data Centers be able to bypass local zoning ordinances in AG Zoning. Instead of just protesting, there is a group forming, including county officials, to propose a tract of land where we will allow Data Centers to be built.
Questions:
How many acres should we expect per complex, with the assumption being 80,000 sqft of interior space per complex?
How many decibels will the operations create at a 500ft distance from the building(s)?
Do urban data centers exist, and if they do, do they differ from rural centers in noise pollution?
Is there data on closed loop cooling system data centers impacting local water and/or soil quality?
Do data centers raise the temperature by 3 to 5 degrees Celsius within a 1 to 5 kilometer range, or is this hearsay?
Neither I nor my community want to stop their construction entirely, we only want to protect our farms while still sharing our community with them. Please let me know if I need to be most specific in any question, thank you in advance!