The department¹ has some new Dell (multi-)GPU servers that scream at 100 dB and can't be turned down any quieter. Thankfully they aren't in our machine room, but you can hear the screaming from the other side of their machine room door. I can't help but think that they're trying to tell us something.

¹ my group doesn't have that kind of money, these servers were directly bought by some researchers with very nice grants that can fund servers that reach six figures each.