#offshore-compute-cooling

Place accelerators on satellites in sun-synchronous orbit, drawing near-continuous solar power, rejecting heat through radiators, and linking satellites by free-space optical fabric. One GPU has flown; independent analyses put costs at least an order of magnitude above equivalent

Seal servers in nitrogen-filled modules on the seabed or floating platforms, using seawater as the heat sink and removing the facility from any residential area. Demonstrated at 24 MW in Shanghai. Microsoft proved the concept off Orkney, then declined to commercialise it.

Starcloud-1 launched on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral on 2 November 2025 into a 325 km orbit: a 60 kg satellite on an Astro Digital Corvus-Micro bus carrying a single Nvidia H100, with a design life of approximately 11…

Nautilus Data Technologies commissioned a Tier III certified floating barge data-center on the Stockton, California waterway in 2021, providing 6.5 MW of critical IT load across ~20,000 sq ft at rack densities of ~55 kW…

The only commercial-scale underwater data-center in operation as of 2026. Servers sit in sealed watertight units offshore from Lingang, positioned between phases of an existing offshore wind farm; construction completed…

Microsoft deployed a sealed, nitrogen-filled cylindrical vessel containing 864 servers to the seabed at 117 feet off Orkney, powered by the islands' wind and solar grid, and retrieved it two years later. Phase 1 had bee…