>HD Hyundai Heavy Industries has signed a major contract worth over $400 million to supply power generation systems to U.S. data centers. The deal, the largest engine supply contract in the company’s history, involves delivering equipment capable of producing 684 megawatts (MW) of electricity. >The systems will use Hyundai’s proprietary HiMSEN natural gas engines, with each unit designed to generate approximately 20 MW of power. The equipment is intended to provide reliable, uninterrupted electricity to data centers, which require constant power to support cloud computing and artificial intelligence applications.>The rapid growth of AI and digital services has dramatically increased electricity demand from data centers. Even brief power disruptions can cause significant operational and financial losses, making reliable backup and primary power solutions essential.>HD Hyundai plans to offer not only the engines but also comprehensive services including installation and maintenance. The company views this deal as an important entry point into the U.S. data center power market and a stepping stone for further expansion in North America.>Han Ju-seok, head of HD Hyundai Heavy Industries’ engine and machinery division, stated that the contract will serve as a key foothold for entering the U.S. data center sector and strengthening the company’s position in the North American power generation business. Not only is South Korea dominating in chip making, but it's also dominating in the AI-led energy boom.
>>534125595Fuck AI
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>>534125595and if any municipality allows that to be installed within 50 miles of a residential community, without industrial ground and wall sound and vibration isolation systems, they are traitors and enemies of the people, whose families' lives are forfeit.
>2 troll comments>interesting threadThis is actually pretty amazing since we supposedly have mass stores of natural gas to burn. And if these get connected to the grid to send overflow to the grid, that would be a win.We don't need datacenter complexes around the country though. We should however at all times have a far greater energy capacity than we can use. A first world nation should at no point be dealing w\ things like brown outs because of lack of energy.
>>534125595these are great for news
>>534125686>Fuck AIyou lost
>>534126137>you lostoh the irony
>>534125595Didn't it come out that Tesla has some very illegal, highly pollutive, natural gas powered turbines powering at least one of their facilities, and despite someone getting video evidence of it the DOJ and EPA said "not our problem?">>534126002That's a problem for the next administration.Honestly, as someone who gets headaches when super heavy vehicles are causing vibrations nearby, I really feel bad for the people who live near these data centers that don't even have the most basic kind of protections to stop people from being hit by the ridiculous amounts of stress inducing sound waves.
>>534125595>HyundaiThey are half in bed with Doosan who makes nuclear power plants, why not go that route? Doosan also does water desalinization so they could source clean water for cooling a data centers as well as the nuclear steam generation.
>>534126182You lost Vietnam and AfghanistanBonus: Bay of Pig
>>534125595Korea is too based. North Korea will surrender soon and Korea will reunite.
