sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoPeter Thiel is leading investment in an ocean data center powered by waves—and the startup is reportedly worth $1 billionfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square73fedilinkarrow-up1236arrow-down115
arrow-up1221arrow-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 · 2 months agomessage-square73fedilink
minus-squarecrystalmerchant@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·2 months 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-up3·edit-22 months 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-up3·2 months 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.