They’re rapidly being converted into generators to meet A.I.’s insatiable demand for electricity. Environmentalists call it a step backward.

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      11 hours ago

      This is what happens when companies are incentivized to turn on data centers fast above any kind of environmental protection or efficiency goal.

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      For real. Most likely those planes were retired for their inefficiency. Now its totally fine to turn the engines into generators - rather than using clean sources of energy. What are we playing at.