The category for tractors and portable generators, in which the Shelby County Health Department placed xAI’s trailer-mounted turbines. It kept them outside the permits required of stationary sources such as power plants, if each stayed less than a year in one place. Chapter 9.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
Where the book uses it
- Chapter 9 — The Price of Permission
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
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Nonroad engine.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/nonroad-engine (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-nonroad-engine-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Nonroad engine}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/nonroad-engine},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}