Literally heating the ocean.
this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
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Tech bros everywhere strive to boil the oceans for AI but China is getting literal with it.
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While STILL being better for the environment lol.
fuck all marine life near this place
The designers, probably.
yeah this is stupid. They’re losing efficiency by placing this in an ocean instead of a freshwater source.
But seriously it’s an interesting idea. Lots of space for ecological catastrophe but depending on how the heat exchanger is designed it could be really cool. There’s so much water in the goddamn ocean I believe you could potentially do serious cooling at a very slow rate over a very large area.
This might actually be the future for computing tasks that dont specifically need proximity. The 10^15 joules of heat per year sounds like a lot but climate emmissions seems to be adding about 10^22 j/y for the last 20 years. This sort of thing could be the future for computers that don't need to be close to the people using them. Its got way fewer externalities to track so the consequences seem way easier to measure.