Repurposed aircraft engines are powering AI data centers amid delays for grid hookups. They’re an efficient and innovative solution to bridging the power gap.
What are chances they fly away and leave us alone ?
Now the AI is basically powered by private jets. The billionaires are buying carbon offsets, so it’s all good.
There just aren’t enough gas turbines to go around and the problem is probably going to get worse
So the market doesn’t provide enough energy, energy generators and the actual tooling (GPUs) to satisfy demands of one.single.industry.
Take from that what you want.
As much as I hate calling LLMs “AI” and the recent surge in its use and production, why hasn’t any of these brilliant machines told their owners about nuclear power? We figured out how to rub spicy rocks together and generate power without the need to light anything on fire a long time ago.
Maybe they did. We’ll find out in a couple decades
No, we cannot have silent, emissions and maintenance free solar panels on rooftops. We need to run jet engines inside data centers instead.
Yes, this makes so much sense.I’m sure they’ll put them outside where the residents of local towns will be subjected to their cacophony
They will call that “progress”, and probably “clean energy”, that’s going to be good for aaalllll citizens of that town.
That’s why the citizens will have to pay extra taxes to finance the new “town infrastructure”.
Now bring the data center money.
They’ll be able to hear the ai bubble
Spectrum makes this seems a very positive way of “bringing power gaps”, but the social consequences of living nearby multiple engines running 24/7 are terrible. This video describes a "town that elon musk is poisoning "
Connection to grid is heavily regulated, can take ten years or more and faces heavy opposition, nobody wants this
Want data center rn
Install natural gas jet engine turbines
Profit
Remind me why this would be better than a diesel generator.
Lower emissions, and natural gas is cheaper than diesel. Also, the lead time is much shorter, as there aren’t many manufacturers of large diesel generators that could keep up with AI datacentre demand, whereas there are lots of airliner turbofans being retired that could be refurbished to become these generators.
