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title: "Mobile and temporary: what it means · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/mobile-and-temporary
description: "Mobile and temporary: Mississippi's words for the Southaven turbines, which exempted them from air permits while each stayed on its trailer and on site for…"
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# Mobile and temporary

What does “Mobile and temporary” mean?

Mobile and temporaryMississippi’s words for the Southaven turbines, which exempted them from air permits while each stayed on its trailer and on site for under twelve months. See nonroad engine. *Chapter 9.*

From *The AI Compute Race*. [Read the book](https://dryburgh.com/vol1#buy)

## Where the book uses it

- [Chapter 9 — The Price of Permission](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-9)Who gets to say yes or no to a campus: counties, air regulators, courts and legislatures, and what their permits, abatements and refusals cost in time and money.

## Related terms

- [Nonroad engine](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/nonroad-engine)
- [Southaven](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/southaven)
- [Agreed order](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/agreed-order)
- [Catalytic controls](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/catalytic-controls)
- [Clean Air Act](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/clean-air-act)
- [Consent](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/consent)
- [Evidentiary hearing](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/evidentiary-hearing)
- [Injunction](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/injunction)
- [Moot](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/moot)
- [Moratorium](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/moratorium)
- [NAACP](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/naacp)
- [Nitrogen oxides](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/nitrogen-oxides)

From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.

- [Campuses](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger)
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- [Data](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/data/releases)
- [Chapter by chapter](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/companion)
- [The record at a glance](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/observatory)
- [The machine](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/machine)
- [One campus, four futures](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/hyperion)
- [Glossary](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary)
- [People](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/people)
- [Sources](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources)
- [Notes](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes)
- [Where the book was wrong](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/corrections)
- [Where its sources were wrong](https://dryburgh.com/corrections?book=vol1)
- [The Paper](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/paper)
- [Consent](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/consent)
- [Who builds and pays](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties)

*The AI Compute Race: Five Races, One Machine* is a book by Lee S. Dryburgh, the first volume of THE COMPUTE ECONOMY, published by Dryburgh, an imprint of Contestra OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia; its record closes on 8 November 2026.

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