The following tornado is brought to you by your AI-enhanced human-induced climate crisis – Now also hitting your local AI-datacenters
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2026
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Say, uh... how many people are guarding that hardware?
These fitted with machine guns bet you anything
Like homeless camps but for servers.
So, I hear there's a bunch of unused office space due to work-from-home, is it really lacking that much power?
Yes... and the ability to deal with super densely packed rack weight.
Like seriously, they can't use existing empty data center space because the floors aren't built to deal with ones that tightly packed of equipment.
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Looking forward to the domestic attacks on these.
“Here he comes! Immortan Mark!”
So they're using gasoline to run jet engines that rotate turbines that generate electricity? wtf
Article about this: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers-turn-to-ex-airliner-engines-as-ai-power-crunch-bites
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Here's an idea: cut all the RTO orders and retrofit all those useless offices into data centers. No one wants to live in the city or suburbs anyways.