Startup Panthalassa Builds Wave-Powered Ocean Data Centers

Another video from the founder here:

@rowancheung Call me crazy but i feel like directly heating up the oceans sounds like a terrible idea

@rowancheung Isn't that building and installing giant heaters in the ocean?

@eedobarganes @rowancheung Yeah i agree, i think it makes more sense to scale them in space, q lot more room out there

@rowancheung ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE for Global Warming

The WORST THING for Rising Sea Temperature.

O B V I O U S L Y

https://ernestoeduardo.medium.com/about-the-need-for-orbital-super-computing-a1d06f489b45

@rowancheung @TheRundownAI I wonder what the implications for wild life would be. In orbit would be best for not just efficiency but ecologically as well.

@rowancheung I'm sure the vast populations of undersea life will be happy to hear about the unlimited cooling.

@rowancheung Using salt water for cooling is a nightmare. It has incrustation from microscopic life and it is corrosive. So it is needed to treat both. Oil rigs do that. It requires energy, quimicals and complex equipaemnts.

@kvickart @rowancheung There is SIMPLY no

THERMODYNAMIC CAPACITY

The OCEANS are THERMAL BATTERIES fully loaded.

@rowancheung It is subtarded. Incredibly corrosive for no real gain.

This isn't even real just attention seeking BULLSHIT.

@rowancheung That seems to be a great execution of a great idea. Nice work. 👏

@rowancheung This thing looks amazing!

Minor correction though, AI does not consume massive amount of water. A day center uses about as much as a restaurant.

@rowancheung that's still a huge energy footprint, where's the power coming from.

@rowancheung “Unlimited cooling” = you don’t know what TF you’re talking about. Fuck ALL the way off @rowancheung

@rowancheung a very cool idea. And the aesthetics are unmatched.

It looks like aquatic Oblivion drones

They just need Tom Cruise to take a tour of one

@rowancheung Who is going to use these data centers when AI models become small enough to run on local compute? You know it is coming. In the 1950s, having a computer with 2 MB of RAM was a pipe dream, 50 years later, not so much.

@rowancheung the bottleneck framing is right, the solution is a moonshot. Power and cooling offshore is the easy 20%. The 80% is maintenance, connectivity and not having a $140M boat sink with a datacenter on it IMHO

@rowancheung So put them in the ocean to heat up the oceans climate change and to use the ocean water? Dims be stupid. Who is servicing data centers in the ocean? I bet a lot harder to find people to do that job. Do the carts tip over more?

@rowancheung Wanna know how I know you've never lived on the ocean?

@himy8888 @rowancheung The waves?