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burritojustice.bsky.social
“aeroderivative turbines”

perverse
June 5, 2026 at 5:49 PM
kostyack.bsky.social
Using fossil fuels to power data centers is bad for your lungs & wallets, especially if the fossil fuels are burned behind-the-meter with aeroderivative turbines (jet engines) & diesel generators. But developers can't wait for grid connections & modern turbines, so brace yourselves.
Data centres turn to aircraft engines to avoid grid connection delays
Supply chain shortages drive developers to use smaller and less efficient power sources to fuel AI power demand
www.ft.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
darkfloppy1.bsky.social
Ist bestimmt reiner #Zufall, dass Monika Grimm so auf #Gaskraftwerke pocht, während das Unternehmen, für das sie tätig ist, aktuell wieder eine tolle Kampagne für seine angebotenen #Gasturbinen fährt. Alles reiner #Zufall. 🤡
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July 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
justinhendrix.bsky.social
"Manufacturers of aeroderivative turbines — which are based on or made from jet engines — and diesel generators have reported increased demand because of data centres seeking to bypass the grid as they wait for larger gas turbines."
Data centres turn to aircraft engines to avoid grid connection delays
Supply chain shortages drive developers to use smaller and less efficient power sources to fuel AI power demand
www.ft.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
ornamentalseashell.bsky.social
"GE Vernova has announced that its LM6000 gas turbine is planned to operate on 100% hydrogen at the Whyalla hydrogen power plant in the Upper Spencer Gulf, South Australia."

www.powerengineeringint.com/hydrogen/ge-...
GE Vernova launches its first 100% hydrogen-fuelled aeroderivative gas turbine - Power Engineering International
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November 23, 2024 at 2:18 AM
toughsf.bsky.social
The LM6000 'aeroderivative' gas turbine starts up in 5 minutes and delivers 57 MW alone (41% efficiency) or 152 MW in paired combined cycle output (55% efficiency), ramping up at 60 MW/min thanks to water-injection cooling:
www.gevernova.com/gas-power/pr...
October 16, 2025 at 9:42 AM
techmeme.com
Data center developers, facing grid access wait times of up to seven years, are turning to aeroderivative turbines and diesel generators to power the AI boom (Martha Muir/Financial Times)

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December 28, 2025 at 7:15 AM
ketanjoshi.co
JFC...the US EIA proposing using rusting engines from retired military craft to power data centres. What a marker of desperation and decay.

40 gigs of rusting jet engines = ~5.3% increase in total US GHGs, 260 mtco2-e per year

www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...
When military aircraft are retired, they live out their days in the sunbelt at the U.S. Air Force’s facility on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona, otherwise known as the Boneyard. As data center operators have searched for rapidly deployable sources of power for their facilities, some have looked to companies modifying jet engines for use in commercial power. Data center facilities in Texas have recently deployed modified jet engines as generators, each with 48 megawatts (MW) of generating capacity. Is there electricity generating potential in the Boneyard? Maybe. We estimate the engines that once powered the retired aircraft could add up to as much as 40,000 MW of electricity generating capacity, or about 10% more than the current generation capacity of Arizona. But this is an estimate of theoretical capacity, not the feasibility of deployment. Practical considerations include the unclear state of the retired engines (from planes retired for more than a decade, on average), military mission needs, and the logistics around removing engines from storage and attaching them to generators. annual increase from 40 gigs of aeroderivative engines. This is prob an underestimate
February 3, 2026 at 10:16 AM
kostyack.bsky.social
In addition to linking gas plants in development to data centers, GEM looks at how many projects are using reciprocating engines & aeroderivative units to get around the backlog on modern turbines. 1/4 of projects in development, or 45 GWs, use these inefficient, badly polluting technologies.
kostyack.bsky.social John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · Aug 25
Global Energy Monitor: U.S. fossil gas power proposals tied to data centers have nearly doubled in the past six months. If these 378 GWs of gas plants are built, the US gas power fleet will have grown by roughly two thirds.
globalenergymonitor.org
August 25, 2026 at 6:27 PM
jessedjenkins.com
Cost estimates for new gas power plants just keep rising! www.utilitydive.com/news/gas-pow... 🔌💡
According to Enverus, capital costs for new natural gas power plants now average $2,200/kW to $3,000/kW. An analysis by GridLab adds another $1,500/kW levelized for the 20-year cost of fuel and $500/kW for pipeline infrastructure, putting the cost of new gas generation at $4,000/kW to $4,500/kW. Kevin Smith, CEO of Arevon Energy, spent years working on natural gas projects alongside nuclear and renewables before transitioning to focus on renewables exclusively. He suggested there was a ceiling to how much gas could be built to meet near-term demand given the prices, pipeline constraints and interconnection queues. “Tens of gigawatts of new generation from natural gas is likely at least five years away, if not more,” Smith said. Table: Comparison of typical cost and flexibility characteristics for various gas generation technologies: Natural Gas Combined Cycle, Natural Gas Combustion Turbine, NGCT Aeroderivative, and Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engine plants. From Ascend Analytics’ report on thermal generation.
November 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
riogranderift.bsky.social
AI data centers are increasingly not just leaning on (behind-the-meter) natural gas-fired power (in part to evade regulatory oversight), but particularly dirty forms of natural-gas fired power.
"Data center developers are using anything they can get their hands on The equipment being deployed is not what utilities typically buy to generate power. Heavy-duty combined-cycle gas turbines—the most efficient option for baseload power—have long lead times and are largely unavailable. Data center developers are instead turning to: Mobile gas generators strapped to semitrucks Aeroderivative turbines originally designed for aircraft and warships Reciprocating engines that ramp fast, but are less efficient Refurbished turbines acquired from industrial operations In our research, we came across a company that typically sells cruise ship engines that struck a deal to power a data center. One developer, unable to secure enough conventional turbines, placed a $1.25 billion order with Boom Supersonic—a company that has never sold a power generation product. Elon Musk's xAI famously drove in semitrucks with natural gas generators on the back to build what was at one time the world's largest data center."
February 6, 2026 at 7:15 PM
maverickbrett.bsky.social
Also reading 20MW now and days I would be like “oh yeah boss next week just strap a tiny tiny aeroderivative to it”
March 14, 2026 at 4:30 AM
rupwan.bsky.social
Aeroderivative Gas Turbine Market Size, Trends & Growth 2035 | WiseGuyReports www.wiseguyreports.com/reports/aero...
Aeroderivative Gas Turbine Market Size, Trends & Growth 2035
The Aeroderivative Gas Turbine Market is expected to grow from 10.87 USD Billion in 2025 to 15 USD Billion by 2035. The Aeroderivative Gas Turbine Market CAGR (growth rate) is expected to be around 3....
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September 18, 2026 at 1:17 PM
adem.bsky.social
this is complete gibberish
screenshot from some tweets that are in the thread that starts here: https://x.com/bscholl/status/1998372107215122910 text in screenshot: 5/ There's something brilliant in this approach: large arrays of mid-size turbines are the blade servers of the energy world. Just as blade servers are more reliable and efficient than mainframes, so would be an array of turbines. But there was a major problem: 6/ The existing "aeroderivative" turbines were old technology—based literally on 1970s jet engines. This means they didn't perform well in the real world, had no cloud connectivity. Nonetheless, AI companies were snapping up all they could get... engines were effectively old out
December 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
davidtoke.bsky.social
Paving the way for 100% renewable energy in South Australia: large-scale 100% hydrogen fuelled gas turbine to be linked with wind, solar, sources and electrolyser. www.powermag.com/ge-vernova-u...
GE Vernova Unveils 100% Hydrogen-Fueled Aeroderivative Gas Turbine Solution, Secures First Customer
GE Vernova has unveiled a 100% hydrogen-ready aeroderivative gas turbine solution based on its LM6000VELOX package. The first-of-a-kind technology will be showcased at the 200-MW Whyalla hydrogen powe...
www.powermag.com
November 26, 2024 at 1:06 PM
dragonscantdrive.bsky.social
hands = gone

Now how am I going to finish installing my GE TM2500 DLE aeroderivative gas turbine
A poorly drawn photo of a dragon with circles for hands
May 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
toughsf.bsky.social
The Ticonderoga-class cruiser is powered by four GE LM2500 gas turbines producing 60 MW at the shaft. It propels the 9800 ton ship to 60 km/h.

Those turbines are 'aeroderivative' designs based on GE CF6s. Four of those let the Boeing 747 take its 350 tons to 939 km/h.
February 3, 2024 at 6:26 AM
swampfoot.bsky.social
A single LM1500 gas turbine, a J79 aeroderivative, an engine literally from the 1950s, (if that's what they're using) produces 15 thousand horsepower, and they needed THIRTY FIVE of them. Cripes.
May 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
kostyack.bsky.social
This story about GE Vernova's expanded production of aeroderivative turbines for off-grid power is really a climate story.
Data centres turn to aircraft engines to avoid grid connection delays
Supply chain shortages drive developers to use smaller and less efficient power sources to fuel AI power demand
www.ft.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:52 PM
jburwen.bsky.social
They are literally aeroderivative bipartisanpolicy.org/download/?fi...
bipartisanpolicy.org
October 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social
It is terrible, but it is also kind of just a way to describe gas turbines (.. there's a whole class of gas generators called "aeroderivative gas turbines" ... because they are adapted from aircraft jet engines).

(There's a handful of them in the NEM today)
December 27, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Siemens mag das:

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Reliable gas turbines
Siemens Energy develops state-of-the-art gas turbines. Discover our product range – heavy-duty, industrial and aeroderivative gas turbines, ranging up to 593 MW.
www.siemens-energy.com
May 13, 2026 at 6:23 PM
paraver.bsky.social
pollute like there's no tomorrow

#BanAI
Data centers repurpose old jet engines to meet AI’s power demand
Facing a gas turbine shortage, data centers are turning to aeroderivative turbines made from old jet engines to power the AI boom.
interestingengineering.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
datacenterfrontier.bsky.social
AI demand is outpacing the grid.

Aeroderivative turbines are becoming the fast-track bridge for new AI capacity — but permitting and community pressures are rising.

New deep dive at DCF:

www.datacenterfrontier.com/energy/artic...

#datacenter #hyperscale #AIinfrastructure #naturalgas #onsitepower
Aeroderivative Turbines Move to the Center of AI Data Center Power Strategy
Aeroderivative turbines built on aircraft-engine cores are emerging as a fast-track response to AI-era grid delays, offering high-density, scalable power but bringing new scrutiny...
www.datacenterfrontier.com
February 25, 2026 at 6:52 PM
soulbrotha.bsky.social
They can. Aeroderivative turbines. They just don’t want to spend the money. They would rather use your infrastructure.
February 25, 2026 at 5:32 AM