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Remember when $1,000,000,000 was a lot of money?
Does "worth $1 billion" still mean anything these days?
All you need to do is float in open water to know that extracting power out the water you're floating in is basically impossible. The water and you move as one. It's like putting a wind turbine on a balloon. Unless you're anchored you've got no chance.
No one cares that you aren't the one to solve the problem.
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.
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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.
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.
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)
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Germany produced Hitler, Trump and Thiel...
WTF is in the water over there...
Hitler was Austrian.
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.
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
Another fun fact, they imported a bunch of those white Africans to live here lol
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What happened to Mars? Why can’t these people go there and build data centers so we can forget about them.
Imagine the noise that will create underwater. What a horrible form of torture for all the animals in the water.
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.
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!
Then it's not a startup.
“Reportedly” is carrying a lot of weight here
May the Orcas rip him apart
Even though it's renewable energy, it still generates a significant amount of heat.
Can we try cutting down on computing resources wherever possible first?
Can we try cutting down on Peter Thiels?
Yeah seriously, if we could start making software more efficient rather than throwing more hardware at it, we'd be in a much better position environmentally and economically.
Imagine only one thing: the web of the 90s/00s with today's hardware and bandwidth.
A wet dream. But actually I loaded some pages faster with a 14k4 baud modem than some pages with 5Gbit today. With 47228 frameworks and captchas and ....
With every iteration of higher power, programs went shittier, more clogged and devs grew lazy.
The more time goes by, the more I'm interested about software and hardware that tries to do more with less at the consumer and enthusiast level.
Ex: ESP-based projects and products, Meshtastic/MeshCore, eInk-based displays for lower energy consumption, etc
I feel ya. I recently did a shopping-list-app. Wonderfully minimalistic, a simple php-backend and a super simple watch-app as a bonus. And I got sad somehow how superfast the shit is and could even sync when Theres no 4g or 5g. Why does everything has to have 5 updates per minute and each one adding another thing noone wanted just because...subscriptions. Until the simple initial thing is a bloatware-abomination.
I'm tired, boss....
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Not to mention the devastating environmental impact it could have on the marine ecosystem surrounding it.
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Didn't Microsoft already try this a few years ago, and it didn't work because it was a frankly stupid idea.
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
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.
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I hope the salt water makes these ocean data centers impossible.
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Another libertarian paradise
Somehow this will wind up destroying the ocean
If Thiel is involved that’s almost a guarantee
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Please, I am begging them to fuck off to their gulch and leave us the fuck alone at last!
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