Panthalassa, a Portland-based startup, has raised $140 million in Series B funding at a valuation near $1 billion. The company is developing floating, wave-powered platforms that run AI inference workloads at sea. Each 85-meter lollipop-shaped node features a buoyant spherical head atop a long submerged tube, with no engines, hinges, or gearboxes that could fail in harsh ocean conditions. As waves pass, the node bobs up and down, driving oscillating flow through internal turbines to generate electricity onsite. Cold seawater cools the servers, and data transmits back to shore via low-Earth-orbit satellites. Beyond powering AI compute, Panthalassa sees the open ocean as a planetary-scale energy resource capable of delivering tens of terawatts of clean power, alongside solar and nuclear. Commercial deployments are targeted for 2027.
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that wave energy aint gonna be enough to power a full rack of GPUs
How many of these data centers we need to exist for the unlimited cooling ability of the water to no longer cool because the water temperature in the ocean is warmed up so much
Any chance it would change the temperature of the water and create weather changes
Someone coping Concept soon
Or we could just put a huge pause on ai and come up with a better plan or just scrape it all together
Ahh yes, a new way to heat the oceans. Splendid!
Sitting ducks for when humans decide they are done with this "AI revolution:
Oh cool let's hear up our oceans even MORE!!
Will there be a chance of corrosion? Also what about the barnacle situation? I'm no expert please don't clown me I can be completely wrong. I'm just thinking about a few of the cons
P.s if technology thats coming out from the us seems advanced its because we conquered gravity and energy in the 80s
What about security?
"Hey I know, let's put a bunch of heaters into the ocean. What could go wrong?"
Won't a lot of them further over heat the oceans?
Salt is gonna do a lot of damage to that wave generator. Sea life like barnicles are going to affect its longevity as well.
Offshore oil rig conversions seem a good option as well
These will become ideal marine habitats. Maintenance will be off the chart.
It also solve the problem that indirectly heating the ocean just isn’t fast enough
Would that eventually warm the ocean if there’s too many of them? I could be wrong but…. Someone let me know lol
Elites: The ocean has gotten 1 degree warmer in 50 years. You need to drink with paper straws. Also Elites: Let’s stick thousands of AI data centers in the ocean.
Awesome Invention