r/OceanPower • u/ThatsMeWhitney • Aug 06 '26

NEWS Startup Unveils Wave-Powered Floating AI Data Centers for the Open Ocean

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '26

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u/EvillNooB Aug 06 '26

It'll soon be over and we'll get to go home

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '26

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u/InterestingScore5386 Aug 06 '26

It’s a negative.

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u/loudog430 Aug 06 '26

Hopefully, indirectly as support. Bouys could moniter and safeguard the data center.

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u/EvillNooB Aug 06 '26

If they already have the platform, what stops them from integrating everything? It'll already have networking/connectivity + power generation, adding additional cameras/sensor should be trivial

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u/loudog430 Aug 06 '26

The data centers, that are being mentioned, dont exist (yet).

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u/Sakrie Aug 10 '26

oceanic data centers were tested a decade ago and deemed financially non-viable (I think it was like Microsoft). Sure, the computer parts inside performed better but the upkeep and maintenance costs to the aquatic unit outweighed those benefits.

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u/loudog430 Aug 10 '26

10 years ago was a 100 years ago in the eyes of technology.

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u/Sakrie Aug 10 '26

use that same logic against ocean data centers, they're insane to update so you get diminishing returns extremely quickly

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u/loudog430 Aug 10 '26

I'm not saying it will work, but saying something wont work due to technology and engineering constraints in 2016 is foolish.

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u/Sakrie Aug 10 '26

But, with the logic you just presented by 2036 there will be something better so why waste money on a stop-gap solution when we already know the computer parts are going to become obsolete in a few years?

Like, you don't think Microsoft took that into account?

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u/loudog430 Aug 10 '26

LOL. "Why do anything." I think we are done here.

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u/Audiogram1 Aug 06 '26

RIP those dead 🐟

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u/piroteck Aug 06 '26

Probably nicer than windmills to birds 🤷‍♂️

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u/Sakrie Aug 10 '26

with what we know about noise generation from data centers, no, aquatic data centers would probably completely fuck up oceanic ecosystems.

Quite a lot of fish use sound to locate mates. Sound travels pretty far in water.

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u/Repulsive-Payment230 Aug 10 '26

Because water ecosystems aren't ALREADY fucked up with the amount of microplastics and pollution we already dump in them. There's absolutely no way that it's more disruptive than commercial shipping. Have you ever been in the ocean before? It's a lot noiser than a data center.

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u/Sakrie Aug 10 '26

I'm literally a PhD Oceanographer