Twenty jet engines screaming next to your house and pumping out nitrous oxide. But just for five to seven years. It’s fine.

Jet engines are not quiet, with delightful screeching high frequencies at 120 decibels. With some serious acoustic work, they can get that down to 40-50 dB at 750 feet away. [Power Engineering]

The first OpenAI/Oracle Stargate Project data centre in Abilene, Texas is deploying 30 jet turbine generators as backups. [Tom’s Hardware]

Abilene residents are not delighted at the noise, bright lights, pollution, and sudden traffic jams. The city gave Oracle a property tax cut in return for 357 jobs. [KTXS; Texas Observer]

The Abilene data centre also uses a ton of water — in the middle of a desert. The residents are on two-day-a-week water restrictions. This is even as the data centre runs its water closed loop. [AP]

This isn’t just the future of AI data centres — xAI is already making life a misery in South Memphis, with 35 little gas generators and another 90 planned. That’ll be your town next. And you thought bitcoin miners were bad.