Oh, really? Reported by whom, exactly? Thiel's slavering familiars? Fuuuuck off.
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Who are these idiots that keep developing software and tools for psychos like these? No amount of "just doing my job" absolves them.
There's only one way to get back to humanity. Detach from all this bullshit.
The rich will kill us all.
We don't need to wait for them /s
People seem to hate this but isn't this kinda better than making them and drawing from local grids? I kinda wonder to like I would assume to would have to be sized for maximum power needs which kinda makes me wonder if it could actually return energy back to the grid? The way I understood it amazon started selling the cloud product because they did not use as much outside of christmass time.
If it would be something that's needed, that would improve humanity in anyway, maybe.
But here's the problem, these will kill off entire ecosystems. The installation alone will do that, but also whatever anti-corrosion, anti-growth coating on the outside that has to be somehow maximally thermally conductive will do that. The ocean is alive, it wants to be alive, and that life destroys metal and organic matter. It also just eats through petroleum products and every single type of coating we have invented.
So no matter what these will be coated in some toxic paint, that will need to be frequently reapplied, like within 6 months of application, because we want to keep thermal conductivity and barnacles and various other sealife are what I would think everyone can agree are 'insulating' layers.
So where-ever these are will have an entire town built up around them for the constant maintenance; which again involves constantly killing off everything that grows around them and on them, while leeching toxic materials to the environment.
Im not sure on your points. We do and have built ocean platforms and have for along time. I have no idea how close to reality the suppositions are. The thing is its not like what he is building is extra so I guess the question is if the harm of the ocean one is worse than the harm of the land one.
I kinda agree. I don't like huge huge data centers but this may be better than having them on land. Probably would require fiber through the ocean but that's done plenty of times already. Deep ocean is pretty cold for cooling but the pressure and salt water contamination may make it unreasonable...
not sure they really need to bring in water for cooling. should be albel to have a closed systema and pipes running back and forth to cool it down at the bottom or such.
I was imagining just dropping the whole thing at the ocean bottom. All the heat just dispersed to the water surrounding it