On Wednesday night, Mayor Matt Mahan met with some South San Jose residents who say they\u2019ve been dealing with a low, constant hum and bright lights shinning into their backyards coming from data centers nearby.<\/p>\n
Neighbors said the noise can get even louder when temperatures rise. Their concerns come as San Jose looks at whether its rules for data centers need to be strengthened.<\/p>\n
Denisa and Jay Filichia live in South San Jose. Their backyard faces several data centers along Great Oaks Boulevard, separated by a few roads and train tracks.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re not anti-data center at all, it’s more the noise and the lights that are bothering us,\u201d Filichia said.<\/p>\n
Denisa has been in contact with the city, and on Wednesday night, Mayor Matt Mahan went to the neighborhood to hear the noise for himself.<\/p>\n
The mayor and the neighbors then walked toward Monterey Road, getting closer to the data centers.<\/p>\n
The neighbors\u2019 complaints come as data centers themselves are facing increased scrutiny in other cities as these facilities usually require significant amounts of electricity and water, causing a lot of anger in some communities.<\/p>\n
Some are even imposing temporary moratoriums on new data centers, all together.<\/p>\n
San Jose hasn\u2019t. The city is hearing from residents and considering stronger standards.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe should require that if a data center in San Jose can access our purple pipe, that\u2019s our recycled water network, that they need to hook up to that system and become a customer and pay for that water,\u201d Mahan said.<\/p>\n
Mahan says that would also help the city expand its recycled water system.<\/p>\n
And for Denisa and Jay, he says he\u2019ll work with the data centers to try to address the noise and light.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ll talk to them. Maybe they can put some insulation or shielding around the fans and quiet down on their end. maybe we can turn down the lights,” Mahan said.<\/p>\n
San Jose plans to hold a series of town halls in the coming months as it works on potential new standards and regulations for those data centers.<\/p>\n
As for any proposed rules they come up with, they’re expected to come before the San Jose City Council in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Wednesday night, Mayor Matt Mahan met with some South San Jose residents who say they\u2019ve been dealing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2080,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-467833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}