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    Peter Thiel unterstützt ein 1-Milliarden-Dollar-Start-up für Meeresdatenzentren, das von Wellen angetrieben wird

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    1. GeneReddit123 on

      Musks’s „AI data centers in space“ and Thiel’s „AI data centers in the ocean“ have two things in common:

      1. They are not even remotely cost-efficient.

      2. Their true purpose is not efficiency, but moving AI out of public oversight. Outer space and international waters have no protesters, journalists, judges, politicians, or anyone else who will have any idea what data is stored there, what computation takes place, what laws are being followed (or not), and towards what purpose that AI will be used.

    7. PenitentAnomaly on

      The alien probes that sift through the detritus of our long dead civilization are going to be so confused.

    8. Dat_Boi_Teo on

      He should put himself out in the middle of the ocean instead and save us some trouble

    9. imaginary_num6er on

      Why doesn’t he build them in a tower, with the other tower owned by Musk?

    11. Disused_Yeti on

      right there with one of those floating libertarian utopias they like to fantasize about

    12. namelessbrewer on

      It’s not in SmartPipe’s interest to know the location of the data center.  

    15. frobischer on

      Thiel likes data centers that the poors can’t get to when he starts doing the REALLY evil stuff.

    16. SickNoise on

      i wish people would hate on thiel just as much as on musk. he deserves it even more imo. pure evil since the beginning

    19. Local_Fly_7359 on

      Considering Palantir stock is stagnant/declining since October, assume everything he or his company says is bullshit artistry trying to increase share price.

    20. lastdarknight on

      Didnt Microsoft try this and found while it worked there was way more upkeep than you expected due to salt water and barnacles and such

    22. xeio87 on

      Microsoft actually created one of these a few years back. Seems like it didn’t pan out to them since they quietly scrapped it after a year or two.

    26. MrSpiffyTrousers on

      The antichrist wants to boil the ocean right after screeching in the Vatican about how Greta Thunberg is the real antichrist, what a surprise

    27. RobotIcHead on

      They have tried to build tidal power stations multiple times and they pretty always fail or need lots of up keep that pushes up running costs.

      The ebb and flow of the waves/tides combined with the corrosive nature of salt water just destroys metal on things like turbine blades.

      You need to protect against barnacles (and regularly remove them as well) and other sea life. Also storms and flooding. Have people either living close by for this work or living on station. If they are on station ask any oil platform worker or sailor about the problems and expenses they have.

    28. Effervescentgravy on

      Thiel is obsessed with the ocean. He has spent decades funding sea stedding startups with the hopes of creating a libertarian paradise that he can rule as a dictator.

    30. ComplexMethod on

      Isn’t there a huge issue with local governments and residents saying they don’t want data centers near them because its a drain on the resources of smaller towns and cities. So why isn’t this a positive? They are going to build data centers regardless so just curious why this isn’t a better choice

    32. merRedditor on

      So we only get clean energy if it’s specifically for a data center for use in surveillance, apparently. This energy source could have stopped being blocked a long time ago and potentially saved the habitability of the planet, but no – that wasn’t a good enough reason. Has to be data centers.

    34. akw314 on

      I wrote a college paper about this 20 years ago and my professor gave me a D.

    35. Usual-Language-745 on

      “Powered by waves” but with a gigawatt extension cord backup just in case, and the first couple years while they are working on the concept 

    37. grammer70 on

      How much money do these greedy fucks need? Remember when new technologies launched an IPO for capital? All these fucks want it all for themselves.

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