Contra Benn Jordan: data center infrasound harms are fake, says Andy Masley's long rebuttal
AndyMasley · x · 2026-09-07
Andy Masley publishes a long, section-by-section rebuttal of Benn Jordan's two viral videos claiming data centers emit harmful infrasound. He argues the infrasound-harm idea traces to 2010s fossil-fuel-backed pseudoscience against wind turbines, that scientific consensus rejects unique sub-audible health harms, and that Jordan repeatedly misrepresents cited studies—some authors of which have clarified. Masley frames the episode as a case study in how highbrow misinformation spreads amid 'social permission to treat data centers as boogeymen.'
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