Opeli follows Elon Musk’s stages and apparently plans to implement gas turbines on his first Stargate data center in Abilene, Texas. According to the post on semi -spatial X29 GE VERNOVA LM2500XPRESS TURBINS was reportedly purchased for the data center, with each of which is able to produce 34 MW. If all turbines are installed on the spot, it would mean a total output of 986 MW – almost enough energy to supply 500,000 GB200 NVL72.
CruśeThe AI Infrastructure company, building the first Stargate OpenAI data center, has just announced that it has purchased these turbine generators “to ensure flexible and efficient power to intensive energy centers that support AI applications”. GE LM2500EXPRESS units are described as rapid reactions of jet engines, enabling them to quickly adapt the output and ensure a silky transition between sources, thus maintaining continuous power. They also provide technology of selective catalytic reduction (SCR), reducing nitrogen oxide emissions.
The power supply is one of the biggest problems faced by the implementation of the data center, and the net sometimes fights to ensure the required power – this causes increased prices for everyone and reduced energy quality. It reached such an extent that Musk himself bought a power plant abroad and plans to send it to the USA to provide the electrical requirements of his up-to-date data center. In the meantime, Elon Musk implemented portable energy generators in Memphis SuperLecaster to ensure sufficient supply – a movement that raised the anger of residents due to pollution problems.
However, Stargate 1 currently only has permits for 10 turbines on the website. It may happen that permits for the remaining 19 turbines are still in progress with local government or are planned in other places where Crusoe builds (or can follow the example of alleged conducting insufficiently reported energy generators). But in this case, it shows how technological giants are looking for solutions to the power problem, which AI data centers are currently encountering.
Many companies, including Microsoft, Meta, Google, Oracle and others, in the AI race also invest in a miniature modular reactor (SMR) technology, which would allow them to implement nuclear energy near the data center places relatively quickly. However, this technology is still in developing, and its first implementation is not expected only in the 1930s, if it hits the market at all. In the meantime, importing power plants and driving gas turbines is a fleeting solution in the power problem industry.
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