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Samsung is building floating data centers on ships, and it's already got regulatory approval
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this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2026
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This seems like the sort of idea that on the surface sounds really innovative and “outside the box” but will sink like a stone when put into action
Data centers in space, data centers on ships... it's likely just an attempt to avoid laws and oversight.
And just like all the libertarian attempts to escape the horrors of being taxed and regulated by taking to the sea this too will fail catastrophically
We'll get to see REAL digital piracy on the high seas!
Bears will eat the data centres, somehow
Would you kindly stop being so pessimistic?
No, no I don’t think I will
Seems you did not mean to make a BioShock reference. oh well, worth a try =)
Did you just vicariously woosh me via myself?
I... I'm not sure? Now I am confused, ¿?¿
Whatever the case may be, would you kindly have a great day now? ;)
You have a great one too, stay safe out there
For sure let’s just leave this mystery unsolved
Or just a way for someone that owns a rocket company to get a trillion dollars. Maybe someone making ships can get a cool $100B from ~~suckers~~ investors.
In the dot com bubble it was a running joke where someone would take any business idea and and add "on the internet" onto it. "We'll sell dogfood... on the internet!" Boom! A billion dollars in VC money.
So now it's take anything and add "using AI" to it. This is even better, it's not just "using AI" it's "and put a bunch of AI chips on it."
"We build ships." Yawn. "We build ships and put a bunch of AI chips on it" Ok, here's your $100 Billion!
¿Por qué no los dos? You can excite the fascist libertarians and still get the attention of the people who blow their load the moment someone adds "AI" to a product.
Microsoft already tested underwater data centres ages ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Natick
That makes a lot more sense to me, keeping something on the bottom of the ocean is much easier that keeping something floating on it
Yes, but I think maintenance is easier on the surface.
We have an opening for a system admin.
Requirements:
Connection will suck. Imagine this thing and its delicate hardware hit by 10m high waves all the time.
These datacenters will probably be used for AI training, or they will get their own ocean cables.
It'll have to have a satellite connection and that will go out if there's a storm.