Spectrum makes this seems a very positive way of "bringing power gaps", but the social consequences of living nearby multiple engines running 24/7 are terrible. This video describes a "town that elon musk is poisoning "

https://youtu.be/3VJT2JeDCyw

No, we cannot have silent, emissions and maintenance free solar panels on rooftops. We need to run jet engines inside data centers instead.
Yes, this makes so much sense.

There just aren’t enough gas turbines to go around and the problem is probably going to get worse

So the market doesn't provide enough energy, energy generators and the actual tooling (GPUs) to satisfy demands of one.single.industry.

Take from that what you want.

Connection to grid is heavily regulated, can take ten years or more and faces heavy opposition, nobody wants this

Want data center rn

Install natural gas jet engine turbines

Profit

What are chances they fly away and leave us alone ?

Remind me why this would be better than a diesel generator.

As much as I hate calling LLMs “AI” and the recent surge in its use and production, why hasn’t any of these brilliant machines told their owners about nuclear power? We figured out how to rub spicy rocks together and generate power without the need to light anything on fire a long time ago.

Isn’t the rotation of the turbine in a jet engine designed with the idea of pushing massive amounts of air and not necessarily the efficiency of the turbine rotation to produce electricity? Like it feels it’s not that efficient and they’re just reaching for anything they can use to generate power.

Leaded gas too I hope

That's right: the slop revolution is powered by A-1 jet fuel. What a glorious way to waste dwindling fossil energy resources...

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.