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Atomarine: Nuclear Data Centers at Sea

https://atomarine.co/
27•ndr•52m ago

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heyjstn•37m ago
Why the website and the images look like AI-generated?
iancutzul•36m ago
because they are :))
highvoltageguy•36m ago
With the current capabilities of drone warfare is literally putting ecological bombs near to the shores. Awesome!
JodieBenitez•31m ago
I thought the same... huge security risks (or huge security costs ?).
avens19•30m ago
How do they handle rough seas?
imglorp•28m ago
Translation: they won't let us build datcenters on land because we screw things up too much there. And we can't afford space. So we'll do it at sea where we can run all the gas turbines we want and wreck the Earth from there.
fulafel•28m ago
"Gas today, nuclear tomorrow" in the power section, with a LNG tanker docked to it.
fluxflexer•24m ago
What's the benefit from using an off shore platform against building them on the beach and using pipes for cooling?
cryo32•23m ago
Avoiding legal jurisdiction, regulation and tax by being offshore.

Bring on the exploding drone boats.

sschueller•23m ago
Sealand[1] is becoming attractive real estate again...

[1] https://sealandgov.org/

beloch•22m ago
This reminds me of the Pangeos megayacht from a few years back.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/pangeos-terayacht-turtle/

TL;DR: Pangeos was a concept for a floating free city that trended a few years back, but was never built for obvious reasons, just like how these floating data centres will never be built. Presumably some people were bilked into paying money to the Pangeos scammers, just like there will be those who "invest" in this.

The problem is that it costs a lot more to put a nuclear reactor into a permanently sea-worthy form-factor than it does to build on land and put up with some pesky taxes. There are plenty of places with lax regulations (environmental and otherwise) that will be happy to let you build whatever size data centre you want if you're willing to build the power generation too.

tatersolid•22m ago
Current nuclear-powered ships are run by the world’s premier naval powers and protected by their own stealth or a huge array of armed escort ships.

Have these guys factored in the cost of a task force of protective missile frigates, subs, and destroyers at each site?

cbg0•21m ago
That's a problem for the future, no need to worry investors with these silly questions.
citrin_ru•18m ago
I doubt Russian nuclear ice breakers have naval escort. Until recently they operated within the coverage of on-shore long range SAM systems (but most of these SAM systems were moved elsewhere recently e.g. to protect oil refineries so Northern Sea Route is no longer protected).
joshuanapoli•11m ago
I don’t think that anyone would want to steal an icebreaker, but a datacenter full of valuable equipment and interesting information is a more likely target.
preisschild•16m ago
Why would a carrier battle group be a prerequisite for this? Capital ships will have escorts anyways, the propulsion system doesn't matter.
fuoqi•15m ago
Nuclear submarines often operate without any escort. Russian nuclear icebreakers and floating SMRs also do not have heavy military escorts.
davidricodias•22m ago
Accident waiting to happen... who's gonna insurance these facilities?
sdoering•4m ago
Privatize the earnings, socialize the risk. The neoliberal dream.
UnfitFootprint•15m ago
Genuinely, have these guys done anything other than AI generated ship pictures? The top down ones look like they didn’t even use a good model.

I’d be stunned if anyone takes this seriously

forgottentea•5m ago
There are some very stupid VC folks around. I have spoken to some, and watched them shart millions away on the back of a powerpoint and some stage presence
emifo3•14m ago
So Much land. Even non civilized lands, Even near sea for piping water. What does this idea solve? Or just adds problems like, Non secure assets/nucclear on the sea.
getmoheb•13m ago
freedom from laws
vincnetas•5m ago
You can not move datacenter built on land. But you can tow this datacenter to new direction if needed. Just like "Howl's Moving Castle" :)
bjord•10m ago
who's ready for gpu piracy?
Faaak•7m ago
Sure, lets heat up the oceans even more.

The sensible way would be to use the waste heat for district heating, but let's heat the fish instead

noosphr•7m ago
I ran the numbers for this about six months ago and it works out a lot better than all the other alternatives.

The fact you're surrounded by coolant, can use intrinsically safe versions of high pressure reactors and have low latency between multiple markets with one datacenter is also a big plus.

That you're not competing with humans for electricity or water is another.

That said you'd want to build a semi submersible platform with the nuclear reactors in the pontoons and the superstructure able to house container based datacenter units. The only place with enough exoretice to build these is South Korea which isn't a deal breaker perse, but Samsung can pretty much eat your lunch if these get successful.

zombot•11m ago
Don't be a killjoy, the bloom of harebrained ideas around AI should be celebrated!
kingleopold•8m ago
of course they did not calculate it! it will come later when they want to calculate real costs, they will release it after investor update
_n_b_•6m ago
Forget security (which worries me less), the legalities of this are notoriously tricky (especially if the ship might ever leave the waters of one nation), and the economics are even worse.

I wouldn’t touch civil maritime nuclear with a barge pole, and if I did, the clear win is decarbonizing big cargo ships.

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