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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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[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] thejml@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days 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.

[–] perturbedstarstuff@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day 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.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 days ago

Giving yourself Alzheimer's to own the libs

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

The "I love Jet Noise" bumper stickers were the first thing I thought of.