Grounded Jet Engines Take Off Again as Datacenter Generators

What's Powering All These Futuristic Data Centers? In Many Cases Repurposed Jet Engines

Turns out they're not powered by hopes and dreams.

Grounded jet engines take off again as datacenter generators

: AI power demands drive operators to repurpose aircraft parts amid gas turbine shortages

What’s Powering All These Futuristic Data Centers? In Many Cases Repurposed Jet Engines - WorldNL Magazine

AI needs a lot of energy, and from Sam Altman, to Bill Gates, to Peter Thiel, tech billionaires with heavy involvement in AI tend to also invest in the futuristic energy moonshot that is nuclear fusion. But the giant, energy-sucking data centers of today are powered by the energy sources of today, including—it turns out—sputtering old repurposed airplane engine cores. As noticed by IEEE Spectrum’s Drew Robb earlier this week, Missouri-based comp…

Soaring AI Demand Has Data Centers Deploying Jet Engines To Keep Up

AI data centers have discovered that the local electricity supply often can't keep pace with the insatiable demand. The solution? Repurposing retired jet engines to serve as on-site power plants.

What’s Powering All These Futuristic Data Centers? In Many Cases Repurposed Jet Engines

Turns out they're not powered by hopes and dreams.