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“We don’t want to be outside”: neighbors can’t stand noisy data center

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 20, 2026
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Lindsay Shaw didn’t mind when a data center went up 100 meters from her front door in Loudoun County, Virginia — she figured it beat a shopping mall. Then Vantage Data Centers fired up eight natural gas turbines, and a high-pitched whine made her screened-in porch unusable. “We don’t want to be outside anymore,” she told Politico.

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