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AI: powered by old jet turbines, near you! (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 4 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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and you thought living near a bitcoin miner was bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XREXd8V7Fck&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251030-ai-powered-by-old-jet-engines-near-you - podcast

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[–] f314@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Jet engines don’t tend to like birds. Maybe the Thanksgiving turkey could find a new use…

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

wait, i thought these turbines were already backordered because of them? not only regular gas turbines but also these converted ones. gas turbine is gas turbine

this is on top of power transformer shortage (which are always backordered, but were backordered before 2022, then ukrainians started buying more because their own got bombed, then techbros made backorders bigger)

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago

yeah even these converted jet engines are in short supply, but ProEnergy has some

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago

This entire newsstory sounds like the plotline for a rejected Captain Planet episode. What the fuck.