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Our oceans can easily support 10 terawatts of energy generation with Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion.
5 terawatts of that is in international waters.
Nothing can stop us from scaling compute.
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Ben Silone
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Ben Silone
@bsilone
Building a better future with AI, on our oceans, and beyond Founder, husband, father, futurist, Jesus follower, e/acc
Tampa, FL Katılım Eylül 2014
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For travel with my wife and 6 kids I would want something we could rent for trips up to about 8 hours of driving.
Honestly airports and flying with kids is awful, and being in a big self-driving vehicle where we can play games and stretch out would be a worth a lot.
Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷@farzyness
There's an UNBELIEVABLE use case for regional trips in the US that will decimate air travel and buses. Fully autonomous Tesla Robovans outfitted as long-haul first-class "buses". These would run routes similar to Amtrak or Greyhounds, but with First-Class-like comfort, amenities, and space. The price per seat of these can be the same as a bus, but FAR more comfortable and FAR more luxurious. Can obviously optimize the interior for the best configuration but MAN. This would absolutely KILL.
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@BladeoftheS People sit in saunas hotter than that every day. It’s hot, but not instant death.
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As the UK hits 35C it is hitting 55C in India, just a few Centigrade from causing instant death.
This is the most heavily populated country on the planet with 1.47 billion people.
More than all of North America and Europe combined.
Imagine if they all have to leave.
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I can provide volumes of facts if you like, image is AI, but supported by data.
In summery we build monolithic structures with UHPC shotcrete in airforms at sea, power by OTEC and cooled with SWAC. This supports a range of inexpensive floating structures for residential, business, datacenters, and spaceports. Building in equatorial areas or many other areas that are hurricane free requires a minimum diameter of about 150m based on max recorded wave heights of 5.24m (historical equatorial NOAA buoy data).
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Elon Musk just revealed the long-term goal for Starship is over 10,000 launches per year
That’s more than one Starship launch every single hour
And by then, each flight could potentially carry over 200 tons of payload to orbit
The scale of what SpaceX is trying to build is order of magnitude higher than anyone has imagined
The scale of what SpaceX is trying to build is orders of magnitude beyond what most people can even imagine
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@beffjezos We need a big mind shift change to agentic workflows. Should be tasking agents with work and deadlines all day, not starting at a screen waiting for a response.
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Glad I'm not the only one who feels this way.
There is currently an illusion of speed with LLMs. The first 95% takes 5% of the time it used to, but the last 5% takes 20× the time, resulting in ~breakeven productivity.
dax@thdxr
think back to projects you've worked on in the past it's hard not to imagine they'd have been completed way faster now that we have ai but everything still feels as slow and as difficult as ever
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@peterrhague The billionaires are stealing all the water from earth with their datacenters and sending it to Mars!
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Its worse than that. His data centres will be so hungry for water that SpaceX will have to try and mine Europa for fresh water, angering the Monoliths.
Joscha Bach@Plinz
we need to prevent elon from building datacenters in the sky because it will use up all the water in the clouds
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@derek_j_scv @fintechfrank In some ways governments have gotten worse and in other ways better. Overall thought poverty has consistently been on the decline thanks largely to technology.
ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-…
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@bsilone @fintechfrank This is the highest level of Authoritarian governments around the world since 1978. Freedom and democracy are losing, which is why poverty is skyrocketing.
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Only 60 million people on earth (1.6% of adults) have a net worth over $1 million.
Those 60M people hold 48% of all global wealth.
The bottom 1.55 billion hold 0.6%.
Source: UBS Global Wealth Report 2025
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And stupid mainstream fell for it 🤣
Aaron Burnett@aaronburnett
SpaceX (fully aware of an impending IPO) set up drones specifically to capture this fireball and chose to livestream it. Let that sink in.
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@commie_trucker If you think that’s bad you should read up about the history of Communism
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I’m 43 now. I’ve worked 50-70 hours a week my entire adult life. I’ve lost years of time with my children and loved ones just so we could afford to live. This life is not only cruel, but unnecessarily cruel. A better world is possible.
MC Squared@mcsquared34
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I think people will be more productive overall. This will result in some big changes, with more crossover between types of work, and a lot more new companies started. There will likely be less job security working for a big company, and more opportunities working for small companies.
The other thing is as people are more productive with AI and robots, and more companies are started, the cost of goods and services will go down. Those small companies will be more likely to scale back hours as everyone makes more money and needs less money. There was a big bump in hiring just after Covid, then a drop back to normal levels, and now an increase again. Lots of false info showing jobs since 2021 that make it look worse.
Ultimately you will own AI, robots, and 3D printers, that will manage your finances, cook and clean, repair your car, design and make your clothes, run your business, and a host of other things. There will be bumps along the way, but all this will scale fairly smoothly together and especially be a huge improvement for the lives of the poorest.
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@bsilone @PeterDiamandis Thank you for answering. I only know what other people in areas with data centers have shared I've never seen anyone that lives near one who likes them at all. But maybe they are out there somewhere. What new jobs will be created? Will the numbers offset the losses of jobs?
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A room full of graduates booed AI-centered commencement speeches, including Eric Schmidt's. I don't blame them. I blame us for not showing them what AI makes possible for THEM. Not for corporations. For them.
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It’s very simple
Find a 3090 or two
Get any mobo that supports 2 pcie x16 ports (at least x16x4 for lanes)
Get a 1200W+ PSU
Buy the cheapest ddr4 ram 64gb+ (you’re not using it anyways)
Install Linux, vLLM, Llama.cpp, SGlang, tailscale
Download any flavour of qwen 3.7 27b
You are now localmaxxing
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So Elon will control the entire internet and cell phone communications?
I like Elon, but that is a bit concerning.
More competition would be good.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
There will also ultimately be >100k V3/V4/V5 satellites for Starlink broadband and direct to cellphone connectivity. If growth continues, Starlink will one day carry the majority of Internet traffic. At that point, it is the Internet and everything else just connects to Starlink.
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Tesla just went nuclear on solar
Tesla is building a 100 GW solar panel factory in Brookshire, Texas - full vertical integration from ingot to finished panel, all under one roof
• 1.65 million square feet
• Co-located with its new $200M Megapack Megafactory
That’s roughly 10% of the world’s current solar manufacturing capacity in a single facility outside Houston
And the deals are already rolling in:
• Meta tapped Tesla for a massive Wyoming project: 365 MW solar + 200 MW / 1,600 MWh of Tesla batteries, with the battery portion alone reportedly around $200M
• Giga Berlin just got another $250M investment, with battery cell capacity doubling from 8 GWh to 18 GWh
• Model Y became the first EV in history to surpass 100,000 new registrations in Norway
Tesla Energy is no longer some side business hiding behind the car company
It’s becoming one of the foundations of the global energy stack
• Solar generation
• Battery storage
• Grid-scale Megapacks
• Home energy products
• EV charging
• Software to control it all
Tesla is not just building EVs
It’s building the deep infrastructure layer for the sustainable future
The future that really matters....
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@ZacksJerryRig @Tesla How many unsupervised cars have you built? Easy to sit back and complain, harder to actually do things.
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It's the middle of 2026. Elon said we would have 500,000 unsupervised @Tesla's on the road right now. Biggest con since Enron.
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@Fat_Electrician There is no logical reason.
There can be reason to ensure they are building properly, especially if near neighborhoods, but that’s the same for any big construction project.
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I’ve looked into this very minimally, so I’m genuinely asking. Why are people opposing data centers so hard?
My gut feeling is it’s hippies opposing nuclear power 2.0, but I’m willing to be convinced otherwise.
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@aaronburnett @DonaldMills142 I’ve seen the explosion before, just not the aerial view
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@DonaldMills142 Historically they’ve cut out at the explosion phase. They’ve landed right on target many times this is the first that they’ve had drone live-streamed on the explosion.
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SpaceX (fully aware of an impending IPO) set up drones specifically to capture this fireball and chose to livestream it. Let that sink in.
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Creating a lot of new jobs, while also reducing costs of goods and services (unfortunately offset by government inflation)
They aren’t polluting the environment any more than a neighborhood or other large structure.
They don’t “use” water. They may cycle cold water in and slightly warm water out, but they have minimal evaporation and don’t pollute that water (it uses a heat exchanger).
Same, similar to a neighborhood or other large structure.
Overall humans live on about 2% of the planet, including homes and roads. Commercial and industrial uses very little. Most arable land is for farms, which are far usually more destructive to wildlife and cause more pollutants in the ground and rivers.
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@bsilone @PeterDiamandis Please explain how Data Centers help more than hurt by eliminating millions of jobs, polluting the environment, using untold gallons of fresh water, causing damaging noise & light while displacing millions of acres of wildlife. What good outweighs those factors? Serious question.
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@bsilone @Cryptoboyy_Aji “Keep”? Before housing, healthcare, food, insurance, gas. Sure you can “keep” more but you’re just hanging on to it temporarily
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A man went to dinner in Europe last night.
Paid $11 for a full meal.
$6 for a glass of wine that would cost $18 in America.
The waiter didn’t need a 25% tip to survive.
The restaurant paid him a living wage.
He took public transit home.
Clean. On time. $2.
No car payment. No insurance bill. No $4 gas.
He didn’t win the lottery.
He didn’t get a raise.
He just lives in a country that decided basic life shouldn’t cost everything you have.
Then he remembered he was American.
And flew home to his $2,300 rent and $500 health insurance premium.
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@The_Only_Signal Yes, this is the future. Smaller models will be self improving, building better tools, and running locally.
What specialized knowledge or hardware they lack they will quickly hire another agent run by someone else and pay with a small amount of bitcoin.
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If you are rocking a 128GB unified memory system, or a 96GB RTX 6000, and running Qwen3.6-27B or 35B-A3B on them, you already know where this industry is headed.
Smaller, more token heavy models, coupled with a harness like Hermes, on moderate VRAM high throughput hardware.
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