Peter Thiel is leading investment in an ocean data center powered by waves—and the startup is reportedly worth $1 billion

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• otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh, really? Reported by whom, exactly? Thiel’s slavering familiars? Fuuuuck off.

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• Surenho@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Who are these idiots that keep developing software and tools for psychos like these? No amount of “just doing my job” absolves them.

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  • IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There’s only one way to get back to humanity. Detach from all this bullshit.

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• HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    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.

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  • vrek@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    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…

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• Reality_Suit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The rich will kill us all.

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  • IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We don’t need to wait for them /s

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• imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Guy’s a lunatic

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