Fuck AI

I think they fly those technicians out by helicopter. There are some offshore wind farms. And as far as I know they work, and they're not particularly high maintenance. But you're right. Both maintenance and initial investment to build them are way higher than for wind on land. And seems even with all the wind on sea, they don't make up for that, resulting in a higher cost for the energy than what's possible with wind turbines on land. I did not know that.

You're right. I kind of missed the international waters part. That's a completely ridiculous idea. And probably also requires some riduculous arrangements.

I'd say judging by this calculation, we're looking at like 15MW of power for one of those platforms. The internet says solar gets you about 200W per square meter. Let's make up a factor of 3 if we have like 8h of sun and we need to store energy for the night. That'd be 225,000m² of solar panels. Or like 42 US football fields. If they're packed and you're at the equator. Or 5 wind turbines. Or they want some of those small nuclear reactors that currently get hyped by the big AI companies.