Makes infinitely more sense than in space.

Power, maintainence, and cooling all seem easier

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

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

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

Warming local water systems will have zero effect on the local environment and wildlife

will sink like a stone

Microsoft already tested underwater data centres ages ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Natick

Honestly, if it was mandated that data centers are only allowed to use renewable energy, this wouldn't be too bad.

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

Has claimed that it is planning to build

FTFY

They're so desperate they're putting it in the worst places. I've seen it replace the normal search bar on one website, and on another you would just randomly get an AI answer instead of regular search results about half the time.

How will the data centers be connected to the Internet? Satellite? Sounds expensive.. Or those cruise ships selling their internet data packages are all lying about how expensive is to have satellite internet..

Yes, but I think maintenance is easier on the surface.

Would waste heat go into the air or water? What affects could that have?

Tweaker version of Red October where they steal all the copper: “Itsh a game of chesh against our old adversary…”

It would go into the water, and it would have basically no effect at all.
The amount of heat is many orders of magnitude too low to heat the oceans up.
As long as you don't park in very shallow waters where it would have a local effect.

Isn't this the attitude that got us climate change in the first place?

Just hook straight into the undersea fiber cables like the chinese and russian do, duh

We'll get to see REAL digital piracy on the high seas!

True. But the scale is still a bit different:
Climate change added 400 ZJ of heat energy to the oceans so far.
If we piped the heat of all datacenters that currently exist into the oceans, that would add 0.001 ZJ per year.
The major issue (for global warming, not local warming) isn't waste heat, it's greenhouse gasses.

"Why bring the water to data centers if we can bring the data centers to water?"

-- some dumbass exec

Good torpedo targets

Pirates of the Caribbean

Heating the oceans globally would require insane and totally unrealistic scale, but the effect on ecosystem on the immediate surroundings is a good question.

Would you kindly stop being so pessimistic?

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

If they got starlink they're all lying, but they might not have it yet.

They'd pay the commercial rates whatever that is, but either way, they're lying.

You know what to do, killer orcas

No, no I don’t think I will

What if it sinks

I'd probably be more concerned with them using bunker b or c for power generation.

Seems you did not mean to make a BioShock reference. oh well, worth a try =)

Came here for this comment. The image is suspiciously free of smokestacks.

We have an opening for a system admin.

Requirements:

• Experience maintaining production servers at scale
• In depth knowledge of security best practices, prevention, mitigation
• SCUBA certification
• Aquatic self-defense skills

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

Did you just vicariously woosh me via myself?

What regulatory approval do you need if it's in international waters

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

Pirates are gonna have an awesome day. I will buy all the stuff they can steal from it.

I... I'm not sure? Now I am confused, ¿?¿

Whatever the case may be, would you kindly have a great day now? ;)

For sure let’s just leave this mystery unsolved

You have a great one too, stay safe out there

There is also the added advantage that half of the world's population lives within 150 miles of the ocean, so finding personnel shouldn't be a problem.

Is this the sign of the upcoming pirate age?

A single ship? Ye, no impact.

Thousands? Well, that will be very noticeable.

Then they certainly won't overheat

No it's a sign of delusion by these companies and governments.

Ships have to be registered in a country and follow the laws of that country when they're in international water.

If you don't register your ship you're effectively a pirate and any navy can just blast your ship out of the water.

Samsung: Can we have AI monies too?

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!