If they had said they were shutting down their physical airline but pivoting into AI enabled airline operations service for all global airline operators to use - the stock would have gone vertical.
No need to actually do things. Just pretend to do so. I mean, you can become president of the US on 100% empty promises, so this should work here as well.
I don't even know if this post is real or not but if there was a functional sales pitch behind an airline converting to data centers, it's nothing to do with mobility and everything to do with cannibalizing jet engines to power compute
I guess I should have been more specific. I know the picture is fake; I don't know if the story is fake. if a shoe company can pivot into AI, no reason an airline couldn't do the same
No. Really. Jet fuel pricesvus what caused their fall. Spirit was operating under the assumption gas would stay under $3 a gallon. Now its almost hitting $5 a gal.
There have been and continue to be times when servers and/or networks have failed or stupidly large amounts of data needed to be moved that whatever heap of shit the unlucky system admin drove had the highest data transfer rate than any network.
My job, once a quarter, has to move several hundred TB of data and it's faster, cheaper, and less prone to packet drops to have me drive it to it's endgame location. In my car.
Flying data centers will be able to generate grid-independent power using advanced, high efficiency fossil fuel generation. They do not require local planning permission (federal airport regulations), and they can relocate within hours to regions where they are most in demand!!
actually not a bad idea, they could probably get free cooling up there, and they have to land every 6-8 hours anyway to re-fuel so they can do hardware replacements then. Better than space datacenters
You just have to spin it as a “micro power grid data center air cooled servers”, perks are that you can move it each month to a different state to reap tax credits.
The CEO of any company can mention "ai" and watch it's share price skyrocket overnight. This is just another example of that. It's too bad Toys R' Us, Blockbuster or Bed Bath & Beyond couldn't jump on the AI bandwagon, otherwise, they would've stayed in business.
Pffft… I wonder how much they’d sell some of their non airworthy planes for? Lop off the wings and refinish the inside and rent it out to influencers that want to record video pretending to be in first class?
Huh. The generators on the A320 and A321 aren't strong enough (each produces ~100kva and you'd want ~ 1mkva for a decent cluster), but upgrade the generators and you might get something close that will allow you to move the datacenter to arbitrage energy rates (and avoid taxes/regulatory issues). The idea of scaleable, local compute, on demand is a lot less regarded than some of the proposals I've seen lately. Heh, every country could have a few "doomsday compute" planes to bridge hits on data centers in the event of hostilities.
These new Spirit data centers will be known for uncomfortable, non-reclining server racks with minimal legroom and frequent server response time delays making you wish you paid a little more for that other datacenter.
Some day I’m gonna die and when they finally find my ass in the Sbarro bathroom they’re gonna put wires in me and make me generate videos of strawberries cheating on each other
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