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Makes sense. Leaves our potable water alone and keeps the fuckers out of sight. They could even put in wind turbines to power the fucking things.
Poseidon plz π₯Ί
Iβve seen pictures of data centers with parking lots full of cars. Are they going to ferry people to and from work each shift?
Probably like an oil rig rotation. You live and work for a contracted period of time on the boat, then you cycle off with someone else every few months or so.
Pirates are gonna have an awesome day. I will buy all the stuff they can steal from it.
Is this the sign of the upcoming pirate age?
The real One Piece is the datacenters Samsung made along the way
We're sorry Mr Robertoe, the pirates, they stole your data. You should change your password right away!
No it's a sign of delusion by these companies and governments.
Honestly if they are going to build a datacenter anyway, this is my preferred way to go. Plenty of water for cooling, power is harder but not impossible.
You know what to do, killer orcas
Samsung: Can we have AI monies too?
What regulatory approval do you need if it's in international waters
Ships have to be registered in a country and follow the laws of that country when they're in international water.
If you don't register your ship you're effectively a pirate and any navy can just blast your ship out of the water.
This seems like the sort of idea that on the surface sounds really innovative and βoutside the boxβ but will sink like a stone when put into action
Data centers in space, data centers on ships... it's likely just an attempt to avoid laws and oversight.
Or just a way for someone that owns a rocket company to get a trillion dollars. Maybe someone making ships can get a cool $100B from ~~suckers~~ investors.
In the dot com bubble it was a running joke where someone would take any business idea and and add "on the internet" onto it. "We'll sell dogfood... on the internet!" Boom! A billion dollars in VC money.
So now it's take anything and add "using AI" to it. This is even better, it's not just "using AI" it's "and put a bunch of AI chips on it."
"We build ships." Yawn. "We build ships and put a bunch of AI chips on it" Ok, here's your $100 Billion!
And just like all the libertarian attempts to escape the horrors of being taxed and regulated by taking to the sea this too will fail catastrophically
Bears will eat the data centres, somehow
We'll get to see REAL digital piracy on the high seas!
Would you kindly stop being so pessimistic?
No, no I donβt think I will
Seems you did not mean to make a BioShock reference. oh well, worth a try =)
Did you just vicariously woosh me via myself?
I... I'm not sure? Now I am confused, ΒΏ?ΒΏ
Whatever the case may be, would you kindly have a great day now? ;)
For sure letβs just leave this mystery unsolved
You have a great one too, stay safe out there
Connection will suck. Imagine this thing and its delicate hardware hit by 10m high waves all the time.
These datacenters will probably be used for AI training, or they will get their own ocean cables.
will sink like a stone
Microsoft already tested underwater data centres ages ago.
That makes a lot more sense to me, keeping something on the bottom of the ocean is much easier that keeping something floating on it
Yes, but I think maintenance is easier on the surface.
We have an opening for a system admin.
Requirements:
"Why bring the water to data centers if we can bring the data centers to water?"
-- some dumbass exec
Pirates of the Caribbean
What if it sinks
Then they certainly won't overheat
Makes infinitely more sense than in space.
Power, maintainence, and cooling all seem easier
Honestly, if it was mandated that data centers are only allowed to use renewable energy, this wouldn't be too bad.
Would waste heat go into the air or water? What affects could that have?
I'd probably be more concerned with them using bunker b or c for power generation.
Ocean water is far more abundant than fresh drinking water. If they have to build them and they need water to cool them this seems better. Although definitely potential for issues like hurricanes / storms and environmental impact for starters. They seem desperate to roll out AI as fast as possible, consequences be damned, so they better start thinking outside the box. This technology isnβt more important than freshwater for life to survive.
There is also the added advantage that half of the world's population lives within 150 miles of the ocean, so finding personnel shouldn't be a problem.
They're so desperate they're putting it in the worst places. I've seen it replace the normal search bar on one website, and on another you would just randomly get an AI answer instead of regular search results about half the time.
Good torpedo targets
How will the data centers be connected to the Internet? Satellite? Sounds expensive.. Or those cruise ships selling their internet data packages are all lying about how expensive is to have satellite internet..