Fuck Thiel.
this post was submitted on 17 May 2026
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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.
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.
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Another fun fact, they imported a bunch of those white Africans to live here lol
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.
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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.
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.
Abstraction layers will be the death of us.
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
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From a physics standpoint, would the energy from the waves eventually turn to heat anyway through friction and waves crashing onshore? Law of conservation of energy and such? If we're getting the energy from the ocean and venting it back into the ocean....?
Indeed, it's basic thermodynamics. The energy coming in to Earth gets turned into heat one way or another, the only question is where that heat goes. In this case it goes into the ocean either way.
Not to mention the devastating environmental impact it could have on the marine ecosystem surrounding it.
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.
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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.
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Somehow this will wind up destroying the ocean
If Thiel is involved that’s almost a guarantee
The year is 2050, massive petawatt scale ocean based data centres are warming the ocean in their immediate vicinity, opening up new breeding grounds for a new killer algae. The algae once unable to grow in regular ocean tempatures thrives in this new ecosystem, and once it matures is able to leave the warmer waters and destroys other marine life it comes into contact with.
This destruction of life in the ocean reverberates around the world as food supply dwindles and hundreds of millions of people begin to starve.
Nah we won't get that far, turns out re-entering satellites deplete ozone pretty significantly but on a 30y delay. SpaceX and Amazon are gonna keep launching their mega-constellations on the grounds of 'Nothing bad has happened yet so you can't prove it will' and by the time it kicks in it'll be too late.
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May the Orcas rip him apart
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
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Then it's not a startup.
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.
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
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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.
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“Reportedly” is carrying a lot of weight here
What happened to Mars? Why can’t these people go there and build data centers so we can forget about them.
He fucking moron.
Another libertarian paradise
According to everything I learned watching Shark Tank reruns, a business isn't worth anything without sales.
Please, I am begging them to fuck off to their gulch and leave us the fuck alone at last!
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