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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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[–] Gladaed@feddit.org -1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Building new engines is quite energy intensive, in particular if used as a backup. Reusing ones that are unsafe or otherwise inefficient for that may be a harm reducing choice.

Just because it sounds crazy and ridiculous doesn't mean it is. A jet engine just turns fuel into useful energy. Just like any turbine, really.

Edit: please note that Byop is a retarded concept. The power grid is most efficient if used everywhere to the greatest extend plausible.

[–] trojanbark@lemmy.world 1 points 19 minutes ago (1 children)

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

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 0 points 18 minutes ago

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