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@siegfried19888
December 28, 2025 at 9:00 am
Ai will help us replace it with biological ai power and bio robots buildings computers bio wireless compute and bio human enhancements ect
Bio is the true future.
@juliane__
December 28, 2025 at 10:29 am
I think this is about consumer waste ai. Most is about consumerism anyways.
@Music-vr7sz
December 28, 2025 at 9:03 am
Fusion will power the future.
@khalifahmuhammad1574
December 28, 2025 at 11:17 am
Yeah. That’s why they murdered that poor Brown University professor.
@supertec2023
December 28, 2025 at 12:44 pm
Yeah it’s just another 20 years away just another 20 years away just another 20 years away😂😂😂😂😂
@Music-vr7sz
December 28, 2025 at 2:16 pm
@khalifahmuhammad1574 not sure who you’re referring to or why a Brown university professor would have any relation to fusion. Fusion reactor experiments are currently going on in numerous countries with billions in funding and are very close to viability ironically through the use of AI itself.
@Music-vr7sz
December 28, 2025 at 2:17 pm
@supertec2023 you do realize saying a random thing and posting emojis doesn’t give you a point right? Maybe try doing actual research and discussing a topic seriously kid.
@Oldaker
December 28, 2025 at 9:39 am
Will this be the only industry? I’m just glad i scored a Mac Mini in this memory market. Now they’re coming for the planes.
@RanjMusket
December 28, 2025 at 10:09 am
I thought nuclear would be the eventual power source.
@l-_-lForkBombl-_-l
December 28, 2025 at 12:44 pm
It is but regulations and cost slow them down and take forever to build.
@showersB4bed
December 28, 2025 at 10:09 am
Another climate denier who has his head in the sand.
@juliane__
December 28, 2025 at 10:30 am
“sand”, like a deep cosy hole of some really rich people who just don’t want to let go of the fossil fuel menace.
@teth.
December 28, 2025 at 3:13 pm
@juliane__Well this “menace” underpins every aspect of human civilisation in its current complexity. So until we have something better it isn’t going anywhere.
@firefox39693
December 28, 2025 at 10:12 am
You don’t acknowledge climate change? Cool. You have to pay a carbon tax for your emissions. Simple. Fair. Sweet.
@juliane__
December 28, 2025 at 10:28 am
I hope the tax is meaningful in the US.
@bhmbill
December 28, 2025 at 10:37 am
Can hydrogen be blended in to decrease emissions and increase efficiency?
@supertec2023
December 28, 2025 at 12:42 pm
Can you make hydrogen fuel cheap easy and environmentally friendly? If so yes if not then definitely no
@veni2598
December 28, 2025 at 10:38 am
Where is the net zero emissions commitment every company was talking about some time ago? Or it was just a fluff…
@britvolante
December 28, 2025 at 10:51 am
CNET does another fluff piece without properly challenging the rubbish spouted by another idiotic tech bro. And let’s be honest, we brits did this more than 50 years ago.
@RyDawg96
December 28, 2025 at 11:06 am
Oh god, someone pop the AI bubble already I’ve had enough.
@Internalview44
December 28, 2025 at 11:21 am
Depending sincerely on ai may not give fruitful results
@generalhassan6750
December 28, 2025 at 11:46 am
To build fossil energy is just dumb… it’s more harmful and costly then renewables – when you hear the guy spew the energy abundance crap – it’s really a shame because I liked the company before…
@Morimikmo
December 28, 2025 at 12:12 pm
no need for that. in finland we have a lot of energy and wärtsilä can make big motors for generators
@supertec2023
December 28, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Maybe in Finland but not another parts of the world. Every place has different climates cultures conditions you can’t equate what happens in Finland what happens let’s say in Syria or Egypt or Argentina they’re all different places with different climates and environments energy production etc etc
@Morimikmo
December 28, 2025 at 1:47 pm
@supertec2023 so its better built this systems in finland 😉
@OnTheSnap1
December 28, 2025 at 12:13 pm
Burning methane to power a data center is next level desperate. What a horrible idea.
@yamspaine
December 28, 2025 at 4:33 pm
that is a great fuel, much easier to deal with than hydrogen.
@Clark-Mills
December 28, 2025 at 12:23 pm
Solar? Batteries? This is yet another gas turbine pumping out greenhouse gasses.
@supertec2023
December 28, 2025 at 12:41 pm
Another reason not to use AI when absolutely necessary.
@NIAtoolkit
December 28, 2025 at 1:42 pm
What are their plans to capture CO2, CO2, NOx, and other particulates after combustion? Do they have scrubbers
@bossadave
December 28, 2025 at 1:45 pm
Good luck at 3 am trying getting someone out to fix that when it stops working.
@TheDrov
December 28, 2025 at 1:50 pm
How do you think all of the other things that run the world get fixed at 3 am? Like saying, good luck getting a surgeon at 3am… I don’t even understand your point the more I think about it.
@bossadave
December 28, 2025 at 2:13 pm
@TheDrov how many technicians are availiable to work on a jet engine rather than the default Cummins or Caterpillar genset. It is the same as trying to find a mechanic to work on a Ford compared to a Pagani Zonda. The risk of failure or downtime is huge.
@TheDrov
December 28, 2025 at 2:17 pm
@bossadave Same as having top tier network architects or distinguished engineers who fix a network outage at a T1 telecom carrier. There are a lot of things that require extreme expertise potentially 24 hours a day. I work in telecom infrastructure/ networks. Most changes occur in the off hours and go without those experts but things go wrong and some have a high risk and require them.
@orangerizik
December 28, 2025 at 1:59 pm
Boom Supersonic wants to “boom” its stock (pre-ipo). Unbelievable — is there anyone not trying to ride the AI wave?
@abinjoseph9808
December 28, 2025 at 3:30 pm
Iam glad that this is available as a stop gap power source
@timothyshiu2263
December 28, 2025 at 3:52 pm
Dumbest thing in the galaxy
@yamspaine
December 28, 2025 at 4:32 pm
If these engines can be “detuned” to operate with minimal wear, that could be great. I imagine ample lubricating oil and filters, constant loads, no bird strikes… Just change a few filters and add new oil while draining the old,
They use other common jet engines for power, but anything that lowers maintenance is great.
@sandeep_raman
December 28, 2025 at 5:35 pm
All these data centers are used for what, more personal advertising’s? Because they are not solving any issues. No change in healthcare, food quality is going down, more and more nonsense apps. Bhosadi k data centers ka use kya hai?
@Ac_a
December 28, 2025 at 7:14 pm
Capitalist Dystopian👹HELL🇺🇸USA.
Hope Climate Change Wipes these ai data centers Off the map.
@lucansanchez5129
December 28, 2025 at 7:49 pm
Trains, merchant ships and plane should generate electricity and collect it for electricity grid. A genuine electric Grid should integrate public transport for electricity generation as well as using electricity. Ships and plane move luggage and container why don’t they do the same with electric cells for electric Grid distribution on and off plane and ship when there collecting containers and suitcases. It could be done at the same time in the same time frame. Trains could produce radiculas amount of electricity. Even bus and truck could produce electricity by adding extra wheels to produce more energy and. There’s a lot of wasted energy potential with vechles especially trains, planes and merchant ships.
@us3rnam3number
December 29, 2025 at 12:44 am
wtf is wrong with these ppl ffs, jet engines are the most polluting engines in existence
@jarednovel
December 29, 2025 at 1:36 am
Trying to reinvent the wheel. We already have natural gas turbines for power generation. Why pretend that we are creating something new when there is nothing new here to see
@TwobitWiseguy
December 29, 2025 at 1:50 am
“In the future when you use ai…” gonna stop you right there. I will not be using it
@anmoldalal16
December 29, 2025 at 2:17 am
The is lead gilding at its finest.
@zero11010
December 29, 2025 at 2:23 am
I feel like these billion dollar companies who need resources to make billions of more dollars … could just build a nuclear facility to power their crap.
This is like how major sports teams make obscene amounts of money and leave it up to tax payers to pay to build arenas for that team to play in.
@godzillamothra5983
December 29, 2025 at 2:55 am
leave it to americans to destroy the world, they have 1001 ways, from the most painful ones to the most cruel ones.
@Guy-Incognito-l3s
December 29, 2025 at 3:07 am
Yeah he lost me at denying climate change. And he’s completely wrong about those warnings “not coming to pass”, they absolutely have.
@SmokeNGunsBBQ
December 29, 2025 at 4:25 am
finally. So sick of hearing that climate scam go on and on for decades. It was always a corporate scam and people can’t figure that out.
@Drexler638
December 29, 2025 at 4:52 am
Nuclear us over regulated
@RealLifeTech187
December 29, 2025 at 6:38 am
To translate what CEO said into plain English “I don’t care if we kill the planet I only care about my bottom line”
@rayr268
December 29, 2025 at 7:35 am
so kiss the planet goodbye? sad world we live in .Their spokes person is a climate change denier making false claims. Someone please replace America and it anti-intellectuals.
@zollen123
December 29, 2025 at 8:35 am
What’s next? We need nuclear bombs to power AI centers?
@willeypoboy5607
December 29, 2025 at 8:41 am
Just think! A farm full of pigs. That can be fed anything ( almost).fueling jet engine’s to power huge warehouses full of no one!
@Salman-sc8gr
December 29, 2025 at 8:42 am
No water for drinking and farms and cows are the enemy but this abominable data centers are being made.
@juiceman_3
December 29, 2025 at 9:51 am
Environment is so cooked
@tong.clement
December 29, 2025 at 10:03 am
For once it’s actually not a bad idea
– they have to run these engines on the ground for testing anyways, and this gives them a lot of paid test time (AI companies paying for the fuel to run Boom’s engine), and they can afford to test even more than normal engines on the ground, improving safety
– they get some small profit (or at least reduced costs of testing) and can cover the test of R&D
this means the company might actually survive until entry of service of their plane!
@petewright4640
December 29, 2025 at 10:14 am
Solid oxide fuel cells SOFC, as licensed by Ceres Power, are the way to go. Silent, low pollution, fuel flexible (yes they can use methane or H2) and much more fuel efficient than a gas turbine (jet engine). And waste heat can be used for data center cooling, which is a bit tricky to collect if using a turbine!
@petewright4640
December 29, 2025 at 10:25 am
“A lot of the fears about climate change have not come to pass” !
Climate change is steadily ramping up. It’s too late to wait for severe impacts to become clear and then try to stop using fossil fuels as it takes decades to transition to net zero. Also there is a delay for some of its main effects to develop e.g. sea level rise, which will continue rising for centuries after we stop using fossil fuels. Not sure developing supersonic travel is helpful either as it’s very energy intensive.
@635574
December 29, 2025 at 11:58 am
Not comparing it to a gas power plant yet? I guess it has some power but not the efficiency.
@ldl1477
December 29, 2025 at 2:42 pm
So an interim measure, burning abundant & cheap natural gas, until we get scalable fission and/or the silver bullet fusion power? Yeah, ok. I’m not sure why we would care about the turbines being “Jet” turbines, thought… unless hype? But, hype factor makes me take things less seriously (unless its a consumable for short time horizon individuals).
@didierpuzenat7280
December 29, 2025 at 3:15 pm
One more reason *NOT* to use AI.
@TomekSw
December 29, 2025 at 3:37 pm
So tonight I’m trying to come up with an idea how my asparagus farm can benefit from AI investment boom. 😅
@CNET
December 29, 2025 at 3:44 pm
Read more about Boom Supersonic on CNET.com: Supersonic Jet Engines Will Soon Power AI Data Centers
@LordVordermort
December 29, 2025 at 3:46 pm
the CEO paid for CNET for this
@AnthonyGale
December 29, 2025 at 5:33 pm
Using the thrust to generate energy? That seems incredibly inefficient. Why not use the engine itself to spin the generator?