Correlation implies causation
(midwest.social)
Science MemesHoly shit, dizziness causes data centers?!
The delay implies on the other direction. Let's see if dizziness reduces a bit in 6 months.
But it really doesn't.
You could replace number of data centers with total number of Taylor Swift songs released and get that same idea. Taylor Swift music existing causes dizziness, and it must be stopped.
Or you could replace number of data centers with "Sean Connery alive?" and decide dizziness has been going up since he died. He was somehow guarding the world against becoming dizzy, and we lost that protection when he passed. :/
Putting two random things on a chart like this doesn't actually show or imply anything, other than that the person who made it likely wants you to believe there's some kind of connection.
Eh...
It doesn't get anything similar to the same result.
https://trends.google.com.br/trends/explore?date=today+5-y&q=dizziness%2CSean+Connery+alive%3F&hl=pt-BR
You are trying to say it's a coincidence, and that's probably correct. But it's perfectly possible that the interest in datacenters leads to an interest in dizziness, or that they are related by some hidden variable.
It's actually
Causation causes correlation
Correlation causes causation.
The chances of this actually being connected is probably near zero (since rising dizziness is global, but datacenters are mostly in few countries), but still felt funny enough to post.
Randomly stumbled upon this while researching why are so many people around lately feeling dizzy.
You ever spin in a circle? You do it a few times you don't really notoce, you do it a lot, younget dizzy.
The earth has been spinning in a lot of cirxles, and we are starting to cross into the "do it a lot" range of spins.
-- Calvin's Dad
I didn't even know dizziness was on the rise! What did you find?
If I were to guess, probably heat stroke due to rising temperatures. Which, if true, would also be worsened by having more data centers
Stress or anxiety can also cause dizziness.
Nothing solid. Imma about to put on my tinfoil hat and start looking at the Russian satellites. Realistically I'm way over my head here and I hope someone else notices the weird trend. The only reason I started looking around is because I feel slightly dizzy for the past 3 months and decided to ask around. Surprisingly alot of people are experiencing the same thing. I'm from Baltics. All health checkups return perfectly fine.
'Over my head' haha
Maybe rising CO2 levels? Just guessing.
Post covid effects? I've been dizzy often since then
Infrasound. Proven negative impact on people's health and general wellbeing, waves travel quite far and have high penetration, and data centers are absolutely the source of it with all the fans and pumps.
Not saying that there 1:1 causation here, but having a data center around will absolutely make you miserable, and dizzy too.
Has it been proven? I see articles that suggest pathways or mechanisms.
But when I looked for a double blind study with controls, they do not find any effects at all. Arguably the majority of studies are around 8 hour periods or sleep period, not 24 hour exposure. But you would think they would find something. They did hearing tests, blood test, brain activity tests, and emotional response "feeling" scores. It just isnt there conclusively.
People started doing a lot of this research because of the wind turbines, which also are very loud, run as long as their is wind, and produce infrasound.
Don't get me wrong: I am not defending putting loud constant noise machines near people, this should be part of a zoning regulation. That seems bad enough, infrasound or not.
Great video about this here
How far does that actually travel, and how does that compare to other bad stuff that has been around longer, like refineries or power substations or whatever?
So, you may have noticed that 5 GHz Wi-Fi has smaller coverage area than 2.4 GHz.
It works that way all the way down to infrasound, which is <20 Hz, and natural examples would be whale communications (thousands of kilometers) or volcano eruptions (infrasound wave from Krakatoa eruption lapped around entire globe multiple times).
As for human factors - basically any big industrial tech object is gonna be the source of ultrasound. So it's kind of safe to assume that infrasound from data centers may be "heard" from at least several kilometers away. Dunno how it compares to refineries and power substations - but they're also source of that.
At night I could hear a train idle from a kilometer away through town easily. That was still in the audible range, not infrasound, and also it was literally just the engine idling, not the train being driven - not super loud even if standing next to it. A bit louder than a car.
Where I live there's a refinery, about ten years ago they changed the burners on the tall torches for a new kind that burn apparently cleaner but they make a lot more noise. It is 6km away with no direct line of sight, the low pitch rumble makes some of the windows in my house rattle.
data centres have been around for decades as well, I believe it's the new hyper scaler data centres that possibly have this infrasound thingo
But that's nothing related to a google trend graph of dizziness and data centres, that's as the OP says, random
These are great:
https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
Spurious shmurious! The causation here is clear: eating butter generates wind farms. Eat more butter to save the planet everyone! It's undeniable science!
When datacenters are being powered by unregulated natural gas generators then it has a massive impact
https://youtu.be/_bP80DEAbuo?is=V2TgYgy6_cqwgCYC
A very informative video
https://youtu.be/_bP80DEAbuo
Same link without the tracking parameter.
I’m pretty sure this is made up.
https://trends.google.com/explore?q=dizziness%2CData%2520centers&date=today+5-y&geo=Worldwide
Just stop. You could have put that in your post. I’m not clicking that link. Post your evidence and not a screenshot. Do better.
