Chapter 129: Seascape

What Wang Fang is most afraid of now is that his data center will be stewed, so it's time for him to get a distributed data center. Blockchain technology has long provided the core technology for secure distributed data centers, and even if some data nodes are damaged, it will not affect the overall situation.

What if you don't have a place where you can feel completely at ease? Simply, don't do anything and put the data center on the high seas.

He wanted to create a small, inexpensive data center that could automatically fix its position in the open ocean with a well-established hexahedral sail. Together, multiple small data centers can become a huge network.

These small nodes communicate wirelessly with the land. He designed a 300-meter-high aerostat, which is the most efficient cruising altitude that Asuka has evolved, and it is also the original intention of his choice of this altitude.

At this altitude, the horizon is more than 60 kilometers away, and two aerostats can connect a 120-kilometer stretch of sea. In order to maintain good adaptability in relative motion, 100 km can be conservatively chosen as the distance between the two nodes.

Wang Fang has a team that has been figuring out how to efficiently get the hydrogen balloon to rise and fall, a problem that engineers have been thinking about since the days of airships. One of the brilliant inventors came up with a better idea than a Google balloon. Google balloons use the method of pumping air, and this engineer's method uses hollow air balloons.

The most interesting thing is that the "wing" can be reversed, when you want the balloon to rise, the wing position is normal, and the wing effect like an airplane is obtained, and when you need to descend, the wing surface of the wing can be flipped over.

This method has been tested to be much more efficient than the pumping of Google balloons, which can convert the force of lift and landing in a matter of seconds.

In practice, depending on the wind speed, the balloon is equipped with a total load that is slightly heavier than the original buoyancy of the air, so that the balloon can be lifted off when the breeze blows, even if there is no wind, only a propeller of very small power is needed to produce a similar effect, rising or falling in the circle.

The engineer received a $1 million reward from Boss Wang.

This thing is especially useful when building a land node, because the Shanghai node is blocked by seawater, and the probability of encountering a saboteur is much smaller, and on land, a random naughty bear child can pose a threat to a suspended balloon, and at this time, it is possible to take decisive measures to cut the rope to protect yourself.

Because the hollow balloon can use very little energy to maintain altitude, the balloon can fly slowly to the predetermined base under the propulsion of a low-power propeller, protecting itself from being captured by ordinary saboteurs.

Of course, these land nodes are only communication relay stations, they don't need much equipment, the load on the balloon is enough to maintain their own operation, and the anchoring equipment underneath is worthless.

How expensive is a 300-meter-high iron tower, if it is built on a mountain, it will be limited by the terrain, and the maintenance on the mountain is not easy, and it is often necessary to build a road to the top of the mountain.

This engineer's invention can provide an extremely cheap solution for Wang Zhan's communication base station, and he can't help but be unhappy.

With this solution, he can upgrade the Internet by 0.5 to 0.9, which means that 90% of Judy users will have access to truly instant Internet service, and the other 10% will have their update time reduced from 1 hour to a few minutes.

Judy doesn't need to explain its technology upgrades to the public, just tell users that now you have access to the real Internet, and they will be happy to enjoy the free upgrades to Judy's phones.

There is no doubt that the stock of Judy phones will continue to be strong.

When developing data centers on the high seas, Wang Fang had a whim: Can these data centers be connected to each other and directly connect the entire Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans? Because only one node is needed every 100 kilometers, the closest place from the west coast of Africa to the east coast of North America is only 5,000 kilometers, and only 50 nodes are needed to connect North America and Africa.

This construction is much less troublesome than submarine fiber optic cables.

According to the tariff of $1 million per node, a wireless communication line through the Atlantic Ocean is only $50 million, which is not enough to use SpaceX to launch a rocket for $60 million.

It is true that the connection of these nodes is not so reliable, because it is necessary to avoid the storm, but isn't it the essence of the Internet to build a few more redundant lines? By building about 10 lines of communication on important shipping routes across three oceans, you can do what no one else can – provide cheap Internet service to ocean-going ships.

But it only needs to invest $500 million, that's it.

These 500 data centers are enough for Wang Bang for a while.

As for their security, they can seek the protection of the navies of each country by flying different flags at each country's branches.

The project claims to be a communications relay station, but the core mission of the data center is not announced.

One of the most powerful subversives of glass hydrogen is that it can efficiently hoard hydrogen fuel, in Wang Zhan's planning, there will be a seaplane responsible for maintaining a line every day, in order to carry out cost-effective flights, Wang Zhan recruited an aircraft modification team, using hydrogen internal combustion engines to transform seaplanes, one of the highlights is that hydrogen fuel can be replenished every 500 kilometers, where the nodes are particularly large, can accommodate a small hydrogen production center that generates electricity through the glider of escapement technology.

This kind of aircraft is not very demanding, that is, 500 kilometers per hour, plus about 10 minutes of maintenance work, about 2 hours to replenish. At this speed, it takes 10 to 20 hours to traverse a 5,000-kilometer line with 50 nodes.

In order not to waste this aircraft, Wang Zhan also plans to launch 10 cheap transoceanic flight routes, with a flight time of 10 to 20 hours. It can be an option for poor travelers.

It is positioned to be a considerable amount cheaper than the cheapest airline at the moment, with about 10 rest stops in between, where you can eat and rest. For this reason, each hydrogen production center also offers a light meal service.

Even if a passenger earns 1,000 yuan, those 10 passengers can earn 10,000 yuan, 10 routes can earn 100,000 yuan, and 365 flights a year can make a profit of 36.5 million. It is estimated that the cost of maintaining the data center can be recouped.

Is it okay to travel across the ocean for 1000 yuan? I'm afraid there are still quite a few people who are willing.

If, to say, if the side hustle is done properly, then the maintenance person can become a passenger who takes a slow plane by the way, and the plane takes him to the maintenance site and drives away immediately, the speed can be increased, and the maintenance person can take the next plane to leave.

Wang Zhan also envisioned an application scenario - someone needs to urgently do a cross-ocean flight, but he has already passed the flight, he can charter a flight, only 10,000 yuan, which is cheaper than some luxury serious first-class cabins.

The specification of the seaplane to be customized by Wang Fang is a rated crew of 12, including two crew members. So it's just enough to carry 10 passengers.

Moreover, in the current situation of Yiwang bombing, this route is no better for smuggling, and when it is on the high seas, people can't control it, and when it comes to the offshore waters, it is not difficult to sneak ashore. With these 10 transoceanic routes, four continents are at his disposal.

It is more convenient to use smuggling, and it is estimated that he will establish the world's largest smuggling network because of this, what unmarketed drugs, human organs, illegal but huge market business is promising.

Wang Bang himself may live on the high seas for a long time that the king can't control, so he hopes to find a small partner for himself, prepare to sell luxury sea view houses to the world, and use the technology of painting boat apartments to get real estate on the high seas.

Dislike the inaccessibility of the house on the sea? It doesn't matter, Boss Wang has a way to make you feel very cost-effective - the owner has a quota of free flights to and from the land once a month, and the usable area of the cabin reaches 120 square meters, which is a real sense of luxury.

The price per square meter is the same as that of a small county, 3,000 yuan, and 120 square meters is 360,000 yuan, an unprecedented sea view room.

Others must be fooling this out, but Boss Wang's ability to integrate resources is too strong, even if it is such an unreliable project, the "sales hotline" is also very popular.

This project has more than 100 hydrogen production centers, and 100 offshore apartments can be built, but it is estimated that 10 should be fine. It's equivalent to running 10 cruise ships, which is not too unusual.

Maybe these 10 are relatively close to the land, 500 kilometers away, it only takes an hour for the plane to fly back to land, the flight cost is only one-tenth of the transoceanic flight, you can sell 100 yuan of air tickets, similar to the high-speed rail fare between large cities in China, so what's embarrassing, it will definitely be able to become some middle-class novelty playthings.

When these 10 or so high seas residential areas are completed, Wang Zhan, the godfather, will really look a little bit like this, because here he is the king, and all the security guards are his mercenaries.

These mercenaries are not new now, in order to engage in desert agriculture in unreliable African countries, he has long reserved a large number of cadres, that is, the specifications of mercenaries.

In fact, his "cruise ship" is a cruise ship that kills other people's homes in seconds, because it is convenient to access the Internet. Or how could he simply sell the space as real estate? With the hydropower system, life is like a small maritime city.

Some people say that the godfather can make money even if he holds a handful of sand now, but I don't know if it's because his aura is too bright or what, but such a marine real estate project has sold hundreds of sets and obtained more than 13 million pre-sales.

This 13 million is a bit of a scale in the eyes of others, but the buyers are very relieved, this little money is not worth mentioning in the eyes of Boss Wang.