>Utilities, developers and firms racing to power AI data centres are scouring the world for second-hand gas turbines, reviving mothballed machines and converting retired jet engines, as lead times for costly new equipment stretch into the next decade.>Despite growing scepticism over the perils of artificial intelligence technology and a recent selloff in related stocks, demand for energy-hungry data centres is soaring, creating a critical bottleneck for essential power infrastructure and equipment, such as turbines.>https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/ai-power-rush-sends-data-centres-hunting-used-turbines-jet-engines-2026-11-09/How short sighted can anyone be? We’re at the point where tech bros are searching for 747 engines to power their data centers so boomers can make dancing cat videos. Our society deserves to collapse at this point.
>>545945713It'd be entertaining if data centers are who finally pushed the break through for small scale thorium reactors to be viable.
>>545945932Fission energy is scalableFusion is notThorium shit is just money funneling
>>545945713Good. I'm a machinist with MRO experience and you can't replace me with ai. Not a fucking chance.
>>545945985Qrd on what’s wrong with thorium?
>>545945713The rapid re-industrialization of some key industries just for data centers is proof that our capability has always been there, but that we had been actively prevented from doing so as a nation until those in power saw private interest in it happening :(The sudden push for nuclear power is the most obvious and egregious example.
>>545945713We are wasting so much hardware, energy and water to create some slop nobody wants to see, hear or read, but hope to make a quick buck by creating low effort slop and posting it on platforms. Nobody wants it. It's shit. Just stop already, holy fuck.
>>545945713The real turbine production process yields a one piece crystal from a micro gravity environment, and has been done that way for probably 50 years. What you see GE Verona doing is servicing the long tail, and so spinning up more production is actually completely infeasible. Because the bleeding edge already exists. Somewhere not with earth gravity.
>>545946356Yes. Purposeful sabotage of the entire nation for personal profit.
>>545946167Thorium? More like borium. We'll just run it by burning witches we've got a lot of fat witches in this country.
>>545946356Jews are moving off diamonds and alcohol and into nuclear alchemy. If we don't let them corner nuclear chemistry they will just kill everyone instead. This is why the jews bombed fukushima.
>>545946167Its not thorium its fusion itselfUnlike fission which is predictable and controllable, fusion dont have "stop at" systemsThe salt shit fusion you heard about, the "we are at 0.5 return" on fusion reactors is just plain lie.For true fission you need a sparkFor true fussin you need mass, or equal amount of energy to continue the fusion process.Unsustainable shit on Earth
>>545945713Seems silkybtonhave abusiness model where companies have to release their secrets. Also much simpler models can make spreadsheets and replace office staff so free chinese models would be the way to go. Dot com bubble all over again it sounds like. Maybe we will get to loot 5090s out of derelict data centers.
>>545945993Machinist make things last I checked. Things baught by people, people with jobs. Layoffs are just as bad as being replaced.
I'm surprised they're not buying old locomotives. 3.35 mW at around 400 gallons diesel/hr
>>545945713SMALLMODULARNUCLEARREACTORS,FAGGOTS.
>>545947369Probably too expensive to deliver locomotives without rail access but it would be hilarious if they actually did that. Imagine 30+ diesel locomotives running at high throttle next to a suburban neighborhood 24/7… and people just taking it.
>>545945713>so boomers can make dancing cat videosReminded me of Easter island, we're the inhabitants make the massive stone status with the big heads and chopped all the trees down to roll the statues into position, they ended up chopping every tree on the island and couldn't make new boats and that ended that low iq civilisation .
>>545950273If the guys who run these data centers found a way to burn food to make electricity they would do it.
