• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    18 hours ago

    No because the problem only exists because of differences in the frequencies the fans actually run at. If they all run it exactly the same frequency it would just be a loud hum which would be annoying but fine.

    So if they got control of their fan frequencies to the level necessary to do what your suggesting they could just have them all run at the same frequency anyway and alleviate the problem that way. But they won’t because that kind of fan control isn’t really possible.

    The real solution would be some kind of soundproofing and maybe not building massive data centres in populated areas.

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      18 hours ago

      Why isn’t that kind of fan control possible? It’s probably just not possible now because of the way fans are configured currently.

      • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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        18 hours ago

        Because fans are not highly tuneable devices?

        They vary greatly, even within the same device, even at the same rpm.