News Del Complex Proposes Floating AI Data Centers in the Ocean to Float US Sanctions

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Del Complex seems to take the concept of company town several miles further — straight toward international waters and the promise of AI clusters with national sovereignty. In a world of geopolitical tension floating in the concepts of AI, AGI, and BCI, this idea is enough to turn heads.

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[HaninTH]

I remember, some years back, that someone else tried to comandeer an old/abandoned oil platform to convert into this sort of thing... a server farm at sea!

The issue is, you have to get your internet from somewhere... and that's usually from a country who's laws you're trying to avoid. Satellite and point to point links probably wouldn't be viable for this sort of operation.

But wouldn't all of this be covered by the new move for totally submerged data centers that have been going on for a few years? Most of them are still within a country's territorial waters, but this could also be extended just past it, in the right part of the ocean.

The surface of the ocean is a terrible place to be most of the time. The US military also tends to ignore anyone's sovereignty in open water, can your security force face a 1st world naval flotilla?

 

[palladin9479]

It was Sealand, a private gunnery tower someone bought from the UK. They converted it into a home and was selling data center services. They were in international waters but also citizens of the UK. Was interesting but they lacked the resources to realize the idea.

 

[Darkoverlordofdata]

Hm... the web site looks like Dr. No has resurfaced. Better get James Bond.

 

[USAFRet]

It was Sealand, a private gunnery tower someone bought from the UK. They converted it into a home and was selling data center services. They were in international waters but also citizens of the UK. Was interesting but they lacked the resources to realize the idea.

Yeah, theres been a couple of attempts.
Sealand, an ex-cruise ship or two...

None have lasted.

 

[palladin9479]

Yeah, theres been a couple of attempts.
Sealand, an ex-cruise ship or two...

None have lasted.

People seriously miscalculate the resource scoping of a business vs an entire government and so they never really resource these endeavors. In theory an international entity can indeed declare itself a country, pass laws, issue passports and currency, but those all become meaningless without a military somewhere to enforce them. The only way its' going to work is if they set it up in international waters near a neutral third party, think a floating datacenter near the Caymen Islands.

 

[Co BIY]

A crazy thought experiment but loads of fun!

A Galt's Gulch of the Sea.

Much more practically, stick a Liberian flag on it. Float it in the ocean out of range of the world's aggressors and generally keep it's activities non-threatening to major ocean going powers and you'd be fine. Start openly developing tech that a lot of people fear will end the human race and I doubt you'll last long.

The reality is that oceans are tough environments and maintaining equipment in the face of sun, water, salt and weather is generally extremely demanding and expensive. The kind of thing that has bankrupted powerful nations.