Remember when $1,000,000,000 was a lot of money?
Does “worth $1 billion” still mean anything these days?
All you need to do is float in open water to know that extracting power out the water you’re floating in is basically impossible. The water and you move as one. It’s like putting a wind turbine on a balloon. Unless you’re anchored you’ve got no chance.
No one cares that you aren’t the one to solve the problem.
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
can we make it a submarine data center?
Right, then they’ll have to build more aircraft carriers to protect it.
If we’re gonna go non-credible-defense, why not add an airstrip to the roof of the data center, and it can manage it’s own protection!
How is that better than a separate ship?
There was the same problem in Space. Russia and China have anti-sat weapons in-orbit pointing at targets already.
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 put them where Russia and China’s navies are a problem, but you also have pirates to worry about
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.
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.
What happened to Mars? Why can’t these people go there and build data centers so we can forget about them.
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.
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)
Literally a vampire.
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.
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
Data centers soon apparently…
He’d probably like that.
“Reportedly” is carrying a lot of weight here
Then it’s not a startup.
Imagine the noise that will create underwater. What a horrible form of torture for all the animals in the water.
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!
May the Orcas rip him apart
Another libertarian paradise
