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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 9 points 3 days ago

Anything but solar/wind. Under Wind turbines you could still farm crops or place solar panels etc. In coast areas we have to turn off wind generators because we dont need the electricity.

  • source