Another libertarian paradise
What happened to Mars? Why can’t these people go there and build data centers so we can forget about them.
This is just a rebranded data center in orbit. Same goal, be completely outside of the law, this time in international waters.
Right, then they’ll have to build more aircraft carriers to protect it.
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.
“Reportedly” is carrying a lot of weight here
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.
If djt was logical, he’d block this for the same reasons he blocked offshore wind turbine development.
But he isn’t so here we go.
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.
Maybe Shady Vance will have a job then, after the inevitable fall from grace.
Then it’s not a startup.
May the Orcas rip him apart
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!
Didn’t Microsoft already try this a few years ago, and it didn’t work because it was a frankly stupid idea.
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)
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.
Fuck Thiel.
Thiel is an enemy of humanity.
Wait, didn’t he talk about the antichrist at a conference, and basically describe himself? Pretty fitting honestly
No, he described socialists 🙄
(Jesus was a socialist)
Germany produced Hitler, Trump and Thiel…
WTF is in the water over there…
So barely being connected to Germany counts as being “produced” by it?
Hitler was born in Austria to Austrian parents and was raised in Germany, sure. You can blame his German upbringing.
But Trump was born in New York. So was his dad. And his mom is from Scotland.
Thiel was born in Germany but his family moved in South Africa when he was an infant and then moved again to the US before he was a teen.
Data centers soon apparently…
Hitler was Austrian.
I though Thiel was South African?
That’s Musk
Thiel was also raised in South Africa, during apartheid, and was schoolmates with a lot of… shall we say… german speaking individuals
You know I’m beginning to think this apartheid thing might have been a bad influence.
Wild thought, but maybe apartheid is bad guys
He’d probably like that.
Imagine the noise that will create underwater. What a horrible form of torture for all the animals in the water.
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.
