Ben Thompson
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42,103 appearances
120 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 21 Aug
Ben Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Okay.
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So absolutely, absolutely a thing.
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Uh and so all yeah.
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Data centers on oil platforms.
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Sure.
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Why not?
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Um you do need there's lots of stuff that goes into that.
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You have to convert that natural gas into power.
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Yeah.
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You need turbines.
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Guess how long it takes to buy a turbine right now?
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In part because turbine blame technology is one of the West's great secrets.
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Um and so there's uh Siemens, there's GE, there's what m there's other I don't want to say I might be mission to see.
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One of those companies has
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One of those
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Yep.
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Turbine blade technology.
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Uh and so uh but so there's a been a big push on like uh l much less efficient turbines or like like temporary ones or generators or like the bloom energy that's doing like fuel cells, which is not nearly as efficient as a proper generator, but you can't get a proper generator and there's like demand right now.
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So now all these things can and I think will be solved over time.
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So it's not disposable.
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