This isn’t as hard as you want to believe, nor would it require a brand new ship. If you want to do coastal designs, there are already some in place. If you want data sovereignty, the only real benefit of space data centers, a small cargo vessel with container data centers and one or more onboard generators could do this. Fueling it would be a challenge, but no more than all the issues with a space data center. As for time constraints, this would still be faster to deploy than any space-based solution.
None of this makes it a good idea, just not particularly novel, difficult, or time-consuming.
The design for coastal barges would work as well in deeper ocean, and the containers already have cooling systems in place. As I said, the only legitimate reason for deep ocean or space data centers is data sovereignty. The rest is just excuses or harder than the existing options. Which is why no one else is doing it and the reason Elon would.
The point of placing a container data center cooled with sea water at the shore is that, they are still readily available for maintenance. In the deep ocean, maintenance becomes a headache. Either someone lives there and does the maintenance. Or you fly people there regularly to do the maintenance. Like how they do it with ocean platform oil rigs. Cooling with seawater requires more maintenance, descaling, valve replacements, animal growth removal, divers, helicopters, camera drones, etc. Oil rigs can justify the cost with the extremely high profit margins that oil generates. I don’t think data centers can justify such a expense. Specially now the bubble is starting to deflate and trillions of dollars have already been drained.
This isn’t as hard as you want to believe, nor would it require a brand new ship. If you want to do coastal designs, there are already some in place. If you want data sovereignty, the only real benefit of space data centers, a small cargo vessel with container data centers and one or more onboard generators could do this. Fueling it would be a challenge, but no more than all the issues with a space data center. As for time constraints, this would still be faster to deploy than any space-based solution.
None of this makes it a good idea, just not particularly novel, difficult, or time-consuming.
How are you going to cool these containers? That’s the whole point of this post.
The design for coastal barges would work as well in deeper ocean, and the containers already have cooling systems in place. As I said, the only legitimate reason for deep ocean or space data centers is data sovereignty. The rest is just excuses or harder than the existing options. Which is why no one else is doing it and the reason Elon would.
The point of placing a container data center cooled with sea water at the shore is that, they are still readily available for maintenance. In the deep ocean, maintenance becomes a headache. Either someone lives there and does the maintenance. Or you fly people there regularly to do the maintenance. Like how they do it with ocean platform oil rigs. Cooling with seawater requires more maintenance, descaling, valve replacements, animal growth removal, divers, helicopters, camera drones, etc. Oil rigs can justify the cost with the extremely high profit margins that oil generates. I don’t think data centers can justify such a expense. Specially now the bubble is starting to deflate and trillions of dollars have already been drained.
Cool. You must have discovered a new cooling technology that is completely self contained. Go collect your Nobel prize.
Now you’re just being obtuse.