YCombinator S26?

Guys, guys, guys... so hear me out - remember last month when we were all giddy about datacenters in space? Well, apparently investors weren't too keen on that idea so we've come up with something much better: Nuclear datacenters at sea!

Now this is truly a visionary proposition that will certainly become another unicorn and have no issues whatsoever.

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st_goliath 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Up next: nuclear data center Zeppelins in the cloud!

Innovative new air cooling: instead of using lots of tiny fans to move air through the servers, we simply use 2 big fans to move the servers through the air!

And while we're at it, we'll completely disrupt the existing Zeppelin market that depends on expensive helium for some reason. We use daring, innovative hydrogen technology, enabling a massive cost reduction!

	▲	2PqboPPmKegvanx 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		the term zeppelins needs to be used more often. love this idea, where do i mail my money to invest!!!!!

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throwawayffffas 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The current major roadblocks for any datacenter are, planning permissions, power connections, and cooling. The on a barge approach solves all of the above, unlike space which makes all of these problems worse.

	▲	Imustaskforhelp 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Its power connections which is the major roadblock and as such obviously planning permissions get tricky because as we see in so many cases, so much grid electricity is used that that the planning permissions become tricky and rightfully so. As many countries are now trying to suggest, bring your own power and we are happy. So in that sense, Nuclear? sure, already being tried but not fast or big enough right now. Sea? I don't think so. You literally get into murky waters on the future of the project and this part feels really hype based, atleast to me. Perhaps some people feel that Sea could cool things off but in my understanding, if you already have nuclear, it would be better building Datacenters in colder stranded regions then to have really effective temperature/natural cooling. Power is the core issue, Everything else is bolted on top of it in my opinion.

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trencedamp 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why not fusion powered data centers on the moon?

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sgt 6 hours ago | parent [-]

We just need to solve the issue of fine moon dust in those computer fan bearings /s

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