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.
Please, I am begging them to fuck off to their gulch and leave us the fuck alone at last!
What happened to Mars? Why can’t these people go there and build data centers so we can forget about them.
Another libertarian paradise
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
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.
So put them where Russia and China’s navies are a problem, but you also have pirates to worry about
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 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.
“Reportedly” is carrying a lot of weight here
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.
Then it’s not a startup.
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Maybe Shady Vance will have a job then, after the inevitable fall from grace.
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.
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)
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
Another fun fact, they imported a bunch of those white Africans to live here lol
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.
