Comment Re:Alternate use (Score 1) 75
This is much better for the environment than just flaring the gas but it's about the least useful thing that could be done with that energy. Training/running AIs would be somewhat better. Some even better uses I could think of:
- Putting the energy into grid storage (maybe even just local grid for the oil rig equipment)
- Running an atmospheric CCS plant, or even CCS on the exhaust of some of the nearby oil rig equipment
- Running a traditional data center (even better usefulness per watt/hour than AIs)
- Running some beneficial distributed computation work like WCG or F@H