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    This seems like the sort of idea that on the surface sounds really innovative and “outside the box” but will sink like a stone when put into action

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      Data centers in space, data centers on ships… it’s likely just an attempt to avoid laws and oversight.

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        Or just a way for someone that owns a rocket company to get a trillion dollars. Maybe someone making ships can get a cool $100B from suckers investors.

        In the dot com bubble it was a running joke where someone would take any business idea and and add “on the internet” onto it. “We’ll sell dogfood… on the internet!” Boom! A billion dollars in VC money.

        So now it’s take anything and add “using AI” to it. This is even better, it’s not just “using AI” it’s “and put a bunch of AI chips on it.”

        “We build ships.” Yawn. “We build ships and put a bunch of AI chips on it” Ok, here’s your $100 Billion!

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          ¿Por qué no los dos? You can excite the fascist libertarians and still get the attention of the people who blow their load the moment someone adds “AI” to a product.

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        And just like all the libertarian attempts to escape the horrors of being taxed and regulated by taking to the sea this too will fail catastrophically

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      Connection will suck. Imagine this thing and its delicate hardware hit by 10m high waves all the time.

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        These datacenters will probably be used for AI training, or they will get their own ocean cables.

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        It’ll have to have a satellite connection and that will go out if there’s a storm.

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        That makes a lot more sense to me, keeping something on the bottom of the ocean is much easier that keeping something floating on it

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            We have an opening for a system admin.

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            • Experience maintaining production servers at scale
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