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Data Centers Turn to Aviation Engines for Power Solutions (spectrum.ieee.org)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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Repurposed aviation engines power AI data centers, bridging energy gaps and enabling rapid AI infrastructure growth with efficient, low-emission solutions.

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[–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Using turbines is like the fking most common way to generate electricity ever, damn this people, they are as dumb as the chatbox they're creating.

Like what, they will build a combined cycle power plant? one of the most common ever? and a administrator or whoever writes this bullshit, saw a power plant for the first time in their lives, and saw a turbine and went "Oh lOOOOOKKKKKKKKKk IS a turbine, like on planes that go whoosh wooosh trough the sky".

edt: i read it and is just using turbines made for aviation, for energy instead, still quite dumb, but not as much.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Using turbines is like the fking most common way to generate electricity ever,

    Except for solar, it's the only way.

    And I swear solar is just photons spinning some tiny turbine and pushing electrons around. I know that's wrong, but I'm believing it anyway.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    For a while, some solar power systems did just boil water and spin a turbine as well, by having mirrors that lasered a tower of molten salt. It's only really recently that photovoltaics have become cheap enough to replace them.

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