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and you thought living near a bitcoin miner was bad

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/30/ai-powered-by-old-jet-turbines-near-you/ - text

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Sources:

• Data Centers Look to Old Airplane Engines for Power https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-data-centers Built for Sound https://www.power-eng.com/operations-maintenance/built-for-sound/
• Data centers turn to commercial aircraft jet engines bolted onto trailers as AI power crunch bites — cast-off turbines generate up to 48 MW of electricity apiece https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers-turn-to-ex-airliner-engines-as-ai-power-crunch-bites
• Neighborhood residents frustrated by traffic from Lancium data center project in Abilene https://ktxs.com/news/local/neighborhood-residents-frustrated-by-traffic-from-lancium-data-center-project-in-abilene
• In Abilene, Stargate Project Puts AI Boom Ahead of Human Health https://www.texasobserver.org/abilene-texas-stargate-natural-gas-plant-harms/
• OpenAI shows off Stargate AI data center in Texas and plans 5 more elsewhere with Oracle, Softbank https://apnews.com/article/openai-stargate-oracle-data-center-0b3f4fa6e8d8141b4c143e3e7f41aba1

Previously on Pivot to AI:

• Texans versus bitcoin: Jackie Sawicky and the Texas Coalition Against Cryptomining https://amycastor.com/2023/10/23/texans-versus-bitcoin-jackie-sawicky-and-the-texas-coalition-against-cryptomining/
• Musk's xAI gas turbines: no emission controls, filling Memphis air with smog https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/14/musks-xai-gas-turbines-no-emission-controls-filling-memphis-air-with-smog
• video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibI6rQmBUF0&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
• OpenAI wants all the gas power — and prices go up https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/04/openai-wants-all-the-gas-power-and-prices-go-up/
• video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gag3vzDiHRs&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

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