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This whole blog seems extremely pro-AI and their entire site is full of articles supposedly debunking why data centers aren't actually bad after all...
This specific article has some pretty crazy conclusions about Benn Jordan's own double-blind study. They're saying it wasn't double blind because he might have noticed water shaking, but in the actual video he explicitly says he threw out any of the data points where he knew if the sound was on. The results seemed pretty conclusive to me.
The other thing is it talks a ton about wind turbine infrasound, and how dangerous levels are thousands of times louder. But the actual measured level of sound ARE thousands of times higher. Measurements have been taken at 96dB, which is significantly higher than the 50-75dB this article is referencing as safe. If the 96dB infrasound is loud enough to shake a glass of water as above, it's not "imperceptible" like the safe levels.
As with all loud sounds in general, exposure time is a factor. A brief burst above 100dB won't damage your hearing, but extended exposure will. I don't see why the same wouldn't apply to infrasound. All these studies are 72h or less of exposure, but there's people living next to these datacenters 24/7.
Personally I'm waiting for more research to be done. There's not enough data to be calling things fake or debunked here.