AI Company Plans to Run Clusters of 10k Nvidia H100 GPUs in International Waters

Re:AI Company Plans to Run Clusters of 10k Nvidia H100 GPUs ... by tzs on Saturday November 04, 2023 @04:30PM (#38144831)

> Each BSFCC will fulfill the criteria set by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the Montevideo Convention to qualify as nation states, allowing Del Complex—and whatever third party willing to pay for its own BSFCC—to operate at sea without government intervention.

...and without government protection.

If they become a nuisance to some country with a navy, and that navy later happens to conduct live fire training exercises in the area and "accidentally" wipes them out the countries that the people on the barges came from will probably object but I doubt it is something they would go to war over or impose sanctions over.

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Re:AI Company Plans to Run Clusters of 10k Nvidia H100 GPUs ... by Vespasian on Saturday November 04, 2023 @04:40PM (#38144912)

Not even that most likely.

These kind of people tend to be very annoying in their home countries so unless there is something unrelated happening no one will come to their help or explain that.

And whatever Navy intervenes doesn't even need to waste shells but can simply send a small patrol boat and 10 soldiers to arrest them. Sovereign "micro nations" tend to quickly return to reality once they are looking at the business end of a few professionally handled handguns.

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Re:AI Company Plans to Run Clusters of 10k Nvidia H100 GPUs ... by mcphage on Saturday November 04, 2023 @05:35PM (#38145385)

Or pirates who find out this boat filled with expensive electronics is sitting unprotected in international waters…

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