Imagine the noise that will create underwater. What a horrible form of torture for all the animals in the water.
The best thing Thiel can do for planet Earth is kill himself and his billionaire buddies.
Wouldn’t be surprised if they all went to the Football World Cup final this year.
They might be the whole audience.
This is just a rebranded data center in orbit. Same goal, be completely outside of the law, this time in international waters.
Lol the space data center crashed, now it’s an ocean data center
can we make it a submarine data center?
Right, then they’ll have to build more aircraft carriers to protect it.
If we’re gonna go non-credible-defense, why not add an airstrip to the roof of the data center, and it can manage it’s own protection!
How is that better than a separate ship?
There was the same problem in Space. Russia and China have anti-sat weapons in-orbit pointing at targets already.
I’d assume the US too. I haven’t decided if it’s a problem yet. Just a comment. Still thinking about where this can lead to. I guess what I’m saying is that presumably, naval contractors would support this project, so it has a good chance of going forward.
So put them where Russia and China’s navies are a problem, but you also have pirates to worry about
Ah yes. The time-tested strategy of dumping our shit in the ocean.
Don’t worry about it. You can’t see it anymore so it’s surely fine!
Calling it now: won’t work, not happening.
How successful was the whole seasteading thing? Yeah.
Half the trick of these rich bastards is to raise money from other rich bastards hoping to become even richer bastards from a good investment. The trick doesn’t require the thing you’re selling to work, even theoretically.
May the Orcas rip him apart
Then it’s not a startup.
I hope the salt water makes these ocean data centers impossible.
Wave power is transmitted back to land, usually, it won’t be a floating data center. At least I doubt it would be, but who knows, they are pretty awful people.
It’s a floating data center. They started out as autonomous hydrogen electrolysis in the middle of the ocean, then shipping liquid hydrogen back to land. Now they pivoted to using the hydrogen to power onboard compute
So they generate electricity from wave power then use that to electrolyze water and put that to a catalyst to generate electricity?
Seems unnecessarily overcomplicated with lots of inefficiencies. Why not just power the computer’s directly?
Definitely wasteful to convert. I’m guessing the hydrogen is a store for when waves aren’t wavey.
Transmitting power to the mainland was the company’s original pitch. But those cables are expensive so now they are pitching AI workloads in the ocean that will communicate via satellite
So I guess the plan is to make a somehow buoyant hyperscaler powered on tidal energy tech which is pretty much still in its infancy, and radiate all the heat in an already too hot ocean?
Lovely idea, Theil, I hope it leaks.
Punching holes in it will help.
To make it more efficient, we should have as many people as possible doing the hole punching
What happened to Mars? Why can’t these people go there and build data centers so we can forget about them.
Didn’t Microsoft already try this a few years ago, and it didn’t work because it was a frankly stupid idea.
Microsoft was trying to build something they could sell for practical reasons as a cheaper alternative to land based data centers. For that purpose it is not cost effective.
Peter Thiel is trying to build something that will not be subject to laws so he can continue to develop horrors beyond human comprehension. For that use case it is possibly very cost effective.
Google did it with containers in the bay, seawater being pumped through heat exchangers. If they couldn’t make it work due to the maintenance when tied to a pier in the bay. These muppets will be shocked at the engineering requirements to do it in the open ocean
Wasn’t that just underwater data centers that used the surrounding ocean as for cooling?
I don’t remember wave power being a notable part of their plan.(though I may have forgotten a detail or 2 over the years)
“Reportedly” is carrying a lot of weight here
Remember when $1,000,000,000 was a lot of money?
Another libertarian paradise
Need some depth charges.
