According to their web site they have deactivated a portion of their units, are installing a a Sound Wall barrier and will convert to immersion cooling. Are those things not true?
There are farms in suburban areas
without sound walls??
Always thought this was a generally accepted requirement.
i don't even think sound walls do anything. they might make the sound a little less loud but they probably don't cut it out entirely. and immersion cooling won't do anything either. since the source of all the noise is the fans that are exhausting the heat from inside the building to the outdoors. you still have to do that with immersion cooling.
some of these people want to move away but they can't because no one would buy their house! so it has also kind of ruined them financially. made their homestead worth alot less.
Depends if they are done properly or not. If they just put up a wall, then no. If they build a couple of different barriers then yes, they do work very well.
Think of it like a giant muffler for you car. You can put on a straight pipe with almost nothing in it and call it a muffler.
You can put on a stock OEM one and it's fairly quiet. Or you can build a custom one for your situation and make it even quieter then the one that came from the factory, it just costs a lot more.
As for the home values, goes back to what I said above, if you move into an area with a very hands off state of mind for planing / zoning, this is always the risk you have. Sorry, but no sympathy from me on that.
-Dave