Panthalassa aims to test floating AI computing nodes in the Pacific in 2026.
Silicon Valley investors such as Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel have bet hundreds of millions of dollars on deploying AI data centers powered by waves in the middle of the world’s oceans—a move that coincides with tech companies facing mounting challenges in building AI data center projects on land.
The latest investment round of $140 million is intended to help the company Panthalassa complete a pilot manufacturing facility near Portland, Oregon, and speed up deployments of wave-riding “nodes” designed to generate electrical power, according to a May 4 press release. Instead of sending renewable energy to a land-based data center, the floating nodes would directly power onboard AI chips and transmit inference tokens representing the AI models’ outputs to customers worldwide via satellite link.
“Panthalassa’s idea transforms an energy transmission problem into a data transmission problem,” Benjamin Lee, a computer architect and engineer at the University of Pennsylvania, told Ars. “Performing AI computation on the ocean would require transferring models to the ocean-based nodes and then responding to prompts and queries.”
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No shit Sherlock 😂
energy transmission problem > data transmission problem
right?
Hope the models don’t get nauseous! ~lol
I'm sure that GPT 3o can solve these problems. Llama 3.2 ran on a pi with breakout chip too. Don't need a PhD in computer architecture to figure it out.
The problem is who is going to shoot the pirates and environment nuts?
Not sure about the pirates, but the environment nuts probably don’t mind, since these capsules are just riding the wave energy!
I'm sure they'll find an excuse
I think we've got some time.
It should take a moment to develop glue that'll stick to skin and data center and works well in saltwater.
Plausible. Lol.
Microsoft did this shit almost a decade ago! The results were actually mind blowing as they sunk the server and failure rates dramatically decreased.
Meeting with them my understanding was they though it could serve a future purpose of training/data that able to have a latency delay.
These latency delay might’ve been sorted out thanks to fiber optic improvements over the past decade.
nice more shit to look at while i'm sailing /s