Power & Energy
Hattersheim residents disturbed by humming from NTT data centres meant to shield them from noise
Partially confirmed
- Date
- 2023-08-11
- Location
- Hattersheim am Main, Hesse, Germany
- Category
- Power & Energy
- NOISE
Evidence
- Did the harm happen?
- Independently documented
- Did the data center cause it?
- Probable
- AI connection
- No verified AI connection
- What was affected
- Human health
- Why
- Operators acknowledged the noise by pledging reductions.
Residents of the Hugo-Hoffmann-Ring neighbourhood in Hattersheim near Frankfurt complained of a persistent hum from neighbouring NTT Global Data Centers FRA4 buildings, which had been intended to act as a noise barrier. NTT later said almost all noise heard outside comes from cooling and that it had worked to make the buildings quieter.