Blog
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EMF From a Data Center Comes From the Substation, Not the Servers
EMF here comes from the substation and lines serving any large load. The leukemia link is real but weak, and Illinois has no statewide numeric limit. Read more →
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PFAS Foam, Dielectric Fluid, and Batteries: The Chemical Hazards at a Data Center
PFAS foam is a documented groundwater concern where it was tested or discharged. Immersion fluids and battery fire risk are plausible but undocumented. Read more →
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Light at Night and Human Health: What the Studies Measure and What They Don’t
The mechanism is established, but studies describe shift workers and cities, not a resident near one shielded facility. No study measures that dose. Read more →
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Lights On All Night: What Data Center Lighting Does to Wildlife
Artificial light at night harms wildlife at any campus lit all night. Full-cutoff, dark-sky design addresses it, and few other uses face the objection. Read more →
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Farmland to Server Hall: The Land Question Is a Values Question
Farmland conversion is permanent, and it is a values question about rezoning. No approval reviewed carries the decommissioning assurance solar must post. Read more →
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Does a Data Center Warm the Neighborhood? Phoenix Says Yes. Illinois Is Unstudied.
A Phoenix study measured up to 4°F downwind of air-cooled data centers. No cold-climate study exists, so an Illinois heat island is unproven either way. Read more →
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Ten Years of Trucks: Construction Is the Impact Neighbors Meet First
On a ten-year campus, neighbors live beside construction longest. It is a large-project impact, so haul routes and baselines belong in the approval. Read more →
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Chandler’s Hum, Yorkville’s Monitors, and the Infrasound Claim
Data center noise depends on cooling, climate and distance. Chandler was a siting failure, Yorkville wrote in monitoring, and infrasound has no basis. Read more →
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Blowdown: The Wastewater Stream the Water Debate Skips
Evaporative cooling sends a chemical wastewater stream to the sewer, and no EPA effluent guideline covers it. Oversight turns on how it is classified. Read more →
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Oregon’s Nitrate, Georgia’s Wells: What the Water Quality Cases Prove
Morrow County and Newton County are the best-known data center water cases. Both are in court and neither proves contamination. The gap is no well test. Read more →