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Old, Polluting Jet Engines Are Being Scavenged to Power Data Centers (www.nytimes.com)
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They’re rapidly being converted into generators to meet A.I.’s insatiable demand for electricity. Environmentalists call it a step backward.

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[–] 26 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Who doesn’t love hearing jet engines blasting 24/7 in their neighborhood?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    I lived in a city with an air force base for a while. People had bumper stickers pointing out that they "Love Jet Noise" and that it is the sound of freedom.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    There are people, it is true—nay, a great many people—who smile at such things, because they are not sensitive to noise; but they are just the very people who are also not sensitive to argument, or thought, or poetry, or art, in a word, to any kind of intellectual influence. The reason of it is that the tissue of their brains is of a very rough and coarse quality.

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