Debunking the viral 'data center infrasound harm' videos: citations don't hold up
AndyMasley · x · 2026-09-08
Andy Masley publishes a detailed rebuttal of YouTuber Benn Jordan's wildly popular videos claiming data centers emit harmful infrasound. He notes the infrasound-harm idea was pseudoscience previously pushed by fossil-fuel interests against wind turbines, now repackaged as anti-data-center narrative. He dissects the misleading citations moment by moment, includes responses from the cited studies' own authors, and covers the ensuing Bluesky/blog back-and-forth, framing it as a case study in how highbrow misinformation spreads.
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