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.
They might be the whole audience.
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.
Then it’s not a startup.
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.
Punching holes in it will help.
To make it more efficient, we should have as many people as possible doing the hole punching
What happened to Mars? Why can’t these people go there and build data centers so we can forget about them.
“Reportedly” is carrying a lot of weight here
Another libertarian paradise
Remember when $1,000,000,000 was a lot of money?
Need some depth charges.
Does “worth $1 billion” still mean anything these days?
Please, I am begging them to fuck off to their gulch and leave us the fuck alone at last!
Maybe Shady Vance will have a job then, after the inevitable fall from grace.
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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.
