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Peter Thiel backs $1B ocean data centre startup powered by waves
- two_handfuls 5mo agoWell that's smarter than putting them in space.
- voxadam 5mo agohttps://archive.is/qllCo https://archive.is/qllCo
- stuaxo 5mo agoHe just can't let go of that sea steading stuff.
- dtagames 5mo agoThis is ridiculous. They say they are not going to transmit electricity back to shore, but of course a data center is not useful unless it moves bits back to shore, using electricity. Were they planning to "sneaker net" the data out of there once the model finished training? You cannot escape the physics of consuming data (which is stored as electrons) on land by producing said electrons at sea.
- marrone12 5mo agoThey're planning to use satellite internet to transmit data.