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Across wide stretches of the sun-bleached Sonoran desert in Arizona, thousands of retired aircraft sit nose-to-tail in graveyards of metal known as boneyards.

​Many of their engines haven’t been fired up for years. But America’s soaring demand for electricity to power data centers is bringing them back to life.

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[–] trojanbark@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It puts more unnecessary heat into the atmosphere to power unnecessary data centers for unnecessary pretend intelligence

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago

Then that's a data center, not a jet engine generator problem.