sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours agoPeter Thiel is leading investment in an ocean data center powered by waves—and the startup is reportedly worth $1 billionfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkPeter Thiel is leading investment in an ocean data center powered by waves—and the startup is reportedly worth $1 billionfortune.comsanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours agomessage-square45fedilink
minus-squarecrystalmerchant@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·15 hours agoIt’s a floating data center. They started out as autonomous hydrogen electrolysis in the middle of the ocean, then shipping liquid hydrogen back to land. Now they pivoted to using the hydrogen to power onboard compute
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-210 hours agoSo they generate electricity from wave power then use that to electrolyze water and put that to a catalyst to generate electricity? Seems unnecessarily overcomplicated with lots of inefficiencies. Why not just power the computer’s directly?
minus-squarekhannie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 hours agoDefinitely wasteful to convert. I’m guessing the hydrogen is a store for when waves aren’t wavey.
It’s a floating data center. They started out as autonomous hydrogen electrolysis in the middle of the ocean, then shipping liquid hydrogen back to land. Now they pivoted to using the hydrogen to power onboard compute
So they generate electricity from wave power then use that to electrolyze water and put that to a catalyst to generate electricity?
Seems unnecessarily overcomplicated with lots of inefficiencies. Why not just power the computer’s directly?
Definitely wasteful to convert. I’m guessing the hydrogen is a store for when waves aren’t wavey.