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Comment by elcritch

4 days ago

A startup I worked at is building wave-powered data centers [1].

1: https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/catalyst-building-inferen...

Huh. I thought the field had mostly soured on wave power due to the incredible engineering challenges. Cheaper+easier to do wind or solar. I guess you can slap “For AI” onto anything to overcome the economics.

  • They have a unique design where only a turbine moves with very cheap electricity produced.

    AI inference gives them a great way to turn revenue from cheap electricity without solving the device-to-shore problem yet for that energy.