EIA Says Plenty of Gas Turbines for Data Centers in Ariz. Boneyard

As data center operators have sought rapidly deployable power sources for their facilities, some have turned to companies that modify jet engines for commercial power generation. Data center facilities in Texas have recently deployed modified jet engines as generators, each with 48 megawatts (MW) of generating capacity. There's a whole "graveyard" of retired military aircraft at the U.S. Air Force’s facility on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona, called the Boneyard. Could the old/retired jets at the Boneyard be repurposed to power data centers? Quite possibly!

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