Yeah, great because ocean habitat already straining from warming oceans are going to love having AI that produces nothing but hallucinations and pron heat up the waters even more.
this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
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Great, let's boil the ocean faster.
Still, FUCK AI.
Don't you see? This is what we needed, a way for AI to fuck over fish too.
Hasnt microsoft been doing offshore datacenters for nearly 15 years? The one off the shore of the UK was almost certainly majority wind powered.
How many AI datacenters will it take to boil the ocean?
It would probably take more energy than we can harvest on earth, considering the sunlight and geothermal energy doesn't boil it currently.
I could see it affecting the temperature on local scales, such as the area immediately around the data center.
There are a number of 6-8GWe nuclear plants that dump 15+GW into the nearby sea (or in the case of Bruce, into Lake Huron). I don't see it being much of an issue. Better than virtually any other cooling option.
The issues are maintenance, energy source, and equipment supply.
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sudo systemctl poweroff
OH FUCK I was in an ssh session!
*Puts on scuba gear
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So this is how we boil the oceans? With fucking underwater AI data centers. Definitely not on my bingo card
No? It's powered by wind energy. Wind is created by heat from the sun. If you capture and use the energy or not it still stays in earth's system. This is about as green as computing can get.
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This is pretty impressive. If only China had a good human rights record. But then again there's only a few countries that do and none of them are superpowers.
So there's a non-zero chance we will find out later that it's just a bathysphere full of children doing math.
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China: "We will use the oceans water". usa: "We will use the citizens drinking water".
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What will this do to the local ocean ecosystems?
China doesn't care. The US doesn't care.
People care... But who are we? What do we matter?
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I'd really like to know how they handle all the small-scale HW issues. As a DC tech, I'm kept quite busy with those
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