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In Northern Virginia, much of the noise neighbors complain about comes not from the buildings but from the gas generators running behind them.
Key facts
- When aviation outgrew the Commerce Department, Congress consolidated oversight into a single independent agency in 1938 and then again in 1958 under the FAA, which moved quickly to strengthen air
- Congress answered with the Air Commerce Act of 1926, which put the Commerce Department in charge of commercial flight
- In May, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation issued a Level 3 alert, its most serious, warning that sudden swings in data center demand threaten the stability of the grid
- One of them led the Environmental Protection Agency under President Biden
Summary
One of them led the Environmental Protection Agency under President Biden. Data centers are being developed faster than the rules meant to govern them can evolve. Communities are pushing back on rising power bills, air pollution, strained water supplies and constant noise. A century ago, the airplane was years ahead of the rules governing it. The United States invented the airplane but had no national aviation policy, and Europe was pulling ahead. By the late 1930s, the country had four major airlines and well over a million air passengers a year.