And what about wildlife?
For children, chronic noise exposure above 55 dBA (EPA threshold) has been linked to:
Poor school performance
Decreased reading comprehension
Concentration deficits
Increased stress and behavioral issues
Cognitive development impairment
The 24/7 nature of data center noise means there’s no respite and no quiet night for a child’s nervous system to recover. Sleep disturbance alone creates attention problems, emotional dysregulation, and academic decline. Studies on children in chronically noisy environments show persistent cognitive deficits.
EMF Exposure: New Power Lines, New Substations, New Risks
What the heck? Data centers require massive electrical infrastructure: high-voltage transmission lines, on-site substations, and industrial-grade transformers all of which generate electromagnetic fields.
The specific health effects of data center EMFs haven’t been studied because the infrastructure is so new, but the science on non-ionizing EMF exposure from power infrastructure is extensive and alarming:
Childhood leukemia: consistently associated with magnetic field exposure above 3–4 milligauss (mG) in multiple pooled analyses
Central nervous system tumors
Brain cancer
ADHD and cognitive dysfunction
Oxidative stress, free radical formation, and DNA damage
Miscarriage
The U.S. has no federal safety regulations protecting against chronic EMF exposure from power infrastructure. The levels that research flags as concerning are perfectly legal. Hundreds of scientists have called for risk mitigation measures.
Millions of parents must call for cessation, not mitigation.
When a data center goes in, it’s not just the building. It’s the new high-voltage corridor cutting across the landscape, the substation humming next to the elementary school, the transformer bank radiating 24/7. Children’s developing nervous systems and rapidly dividing cells make them more vulnerable to EMF effects than adults. Anxiety-related disorders will skyrocket. If the goal is to keep us all chronically ill, then this plan is perfect.
Water Theft: Aquifers Drained While Kids Are Told to Stop Running Under Sprinklers
This is where the rubber meets the rage. Sword to pen. The absurdity astounds.
In Fayetteville, Georgia, a QTS data center secretly consumed nearly 30 million gallons of water before receiving a bill. Residents had been complaining of low water pressure. Imagine that the county had told residents to stop watering their lawns during a drought. Meanwhile, the data center was the number one water consumer in the county hooked up through connections the utility didn’t even know about, in one case.
Don’t let your children drink water! It is needed by the Data Center!
In The Dalles, Oregon (population 16,000), Google’s data centers consumed 355 million gallons in 2021 which is ~ a quarter of the city’s total water supply. Google then funded the city’s lawsuit against a local newspaper that tried to obtain those figures through a public records request, arguing the data was a trade secret.
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