And just like all the libertarian attempts to escape the horrors of being taxed and regulated by taking to the sea this too will fail catastrophically

Or just a way for someone that owns a rocket company to get a trillion dollars. Maybe someone making ships can get a cool $100B from suckers investors.

In the dot com bubble it was a running joke where someone would take any business idea and and add "on the internet" onto it. "We'll sell dogfood... on the internet!" Boom! A billion dollars in VC money.

So now it's take anything and add "using AI" to it. This is even better, it's not just "using AI" it's "and put a bunch of AI chips on it."

"We build ships." Yawn. "We build ships and put a bunch of AI chips on it" Ok, here's your $100 Billion!

That makes a lot more sense to me, keeping something on the bottom of the ocean is much easier that keeping something floating on it

These datacenters will probably be used for AI training, or they will get their own ocean cables.

It'll have to have a satellite connection and that will go out if there's a storm.