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On 11/13/23 9:11 PM, Daniel Keller wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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!</div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">-Dan</div>
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<p>Don't feel bad. It was a well done hoax. It was a Poe
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law</a>). If it fooled
professional journalists, you've got nothing to be ashamed of. <br>
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<p>My previous post definitely provided plenty of evidence that
things like this have been seriously talked about in the last. <br>
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<p>Having said that, I'll probably still bust you about this if we
ever meet, cause I'm *that* guy. ;) <br>
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<p>--<br>
Prentice<br>
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