On 11/13/23 9:11 PM, Daniel Keller wrote:
I hate to admit it, but I guess that I fell for the idea that the Del
Complex floating AI data center was a real project that was trying to
get funding or was under development. I saw stories about it in
multiple usually reputable tech news sites over the course of an
entire week, so that satisfied what I thought was a high enough bar
for vetting, and it lead me astray. With that said, compared to some
of the crazy things that the crypto bros were actually doing during
the height of the cryptocurrency bubbles, such as reactivating entire
old power plants, filling the power plants with mining rigs, and then
using the output of nearly the entire power plant just to power those
rigs, floating data centers suddenly don't seem like an idea that is
that incredibly outlandish for the current Generative A.I. boom.
Besides, wasn't Microsoft also doing experimental testing of
water-submerged containers filled with special water-cooled racks of
Azure cloud servers to help find ways for cheaper cooling for
high-density server systems? Anyway, thank you for the correction
about how the BlueSea Frontier Compute Cluster is a well-crafted hoax
or parody, and for the link to the Vice article about it! It is
appreciated!
-Dan
Don't feel bad. It was a well done hoax. It was a Poe
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law). If it fooled professional
journalists, you've got nothing to be ashamed of.
My previous post definitely provided plenty of evidence that things like
this have been seriously talked about in the last.
Having said that, I'll probably still bust you about this if we ever
meet, cause I'm *that* guy. ;)
--
Prentice
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