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I somehow doubt this is going to be a floating data center. There are a huge number of problems with such a system.
If you’re using wave generation for power, then they need to be anchored pretty far offshore and you need a lot of them for the power draw of both pumping seawater for cooling and running machines.
You need to haul the whole ship out of the sea at least once every 4 years to do maintenance on the hull which is probably a good thing because a barge this low + sea spray + not-quite-airtight shipping containers means accelerated corrosion plus mold and fungus.
Then there is the small problem of internet access on a bobbing boat. You can have a microwave link as long as you don’t go much beyond 3 miles for gigabit speeds, but you’ll need some exceptionally good stabilizers on the marine side and even then, you’re pretty much limited to ~6 Gbps per tower and I’m not even sure if the FCC allows non-fixed antennas for most of the really high bandwidth frequencies like the e-band.
Then again, Google does buy so many machines that they can afford to have a data center randomly go offline.
Why does everyone think offshore data would work? Do you really think that being in international waters protects you? It’s not like the US (and a dozen other countries) don’t have highly trained counter-insurgency units which could break into and compromise/destroy/sink whatever little boat you throw out into the water. If they ever really considered the operation a threat (or if they just trumped up a fake threat in the news) they could just drop a bomb on it or torpedo it. Who would even know if they did? You’re in the middle of the freaking ocean with no witnesses. Going offshore isn’t like waving a magic wand of protection.
Thermal is not infrared. Thermal would show a large container, show you what the outside temp of that container is, and give a loose idea of locations for internal heat sources if the outside walls of that container are not insulated. Infrared would show what it looks like in black and white… in the dark.
Sorry to say, but I think Hollywood has seriously messed up your conception of how the world works.
