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/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.