Startup NetworkOcean wants to sink GPUs into San Francisco Bay.

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    2 months ago

    I am no specialist. But couldnt have this not environmental side effects?

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      2 months ago

      Yes. More specifically, the heat dumped by the servers would allow toxic algae to spread.

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        2 months ago

        But what about shareholder value? Surely the spreading of toxic algae would be dwarfed in comparison.

        And because the algae affects everyone, the city should pay for any clean up.

        We can’t be taxed because we didn’t make any profit. The stock buy backs cost more than we anticipated so we actually took a huge loss…

        MONEY PWEEASE!

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          Toxic algae is an externality that companies have no moral obligation to be concerned about. Ezpz.