🌊 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 WHILE THE US ARGUES ABOUT WHETHER... THE GRID CAN POWER AI, CHINA PUT A DATA CENTER IN THE OCEAN. 24 MW. ~2,000 servers. Off the coast of Shanghai. The sea cools it, no fresh water used. Wind farms at sea power it. It wastes almost no energy keeping cool. Most data centers waste a lot more. Everyone else fights over land. China went where cooling is free and endless.show more

China just took AI infrastructure underwater. The country has... reportedly launched a wind-powered underwater data center near Shanghai, designed to cool AI servers using seawater instead of traditional cooling systems 🌊🤖 Around 2,000 servers are said to be sealed inside submarine-grade modules, helping reduce land use, water consumption, and cooling energy. The project is powered by offshore wind and built for AI workloads, big data, and large-scale computing. Why it matters? AI is creating massive demand for electricity, cooling, and infrastructure. If underwater data centers prove reliable, they could become a new way to scale AI while using less energy. But the challenge is huge: corrosion, maintenance, sea conditions, and long-term reliability still need to be proven.show more

🚨 CHINA IS PUTTING DATA CENTERS ON THE OCEAN... FLOOR AND LETTING THE SEA COOL THEM. Instead of building massive air-conditioned buildings on land, China is submerging sealed server modules on the seabed. The ocean itself acts as a giant natural cooling system. This dramatically cuts energy use, water consumption, and land requirements for power-hungry AI data centers. Why this matters: • Seawater provides free passive cooling no giant chillers or evaporative systems needed • Combined with offshore wind power, many of these facilities run on mostly renewable energy • Projects like the one off Shanghai (Hailanyun/HiCloud) are already operational with hundreds of server racks • Early results show 30–90% lower cooling energy demand compared to traditional data centers The deeper implication is huge: As AI drives explosive growth in computing power, traditional data centers are becoming unsustainable due to electricity and water demands. Underwater data centers offer a clever way to scale AI infrastructure while reducing environmental strain on land. This could become a major trend turning the ocean into the new frontier for the data centers powering tomorrow’s AI. What do you think smart innovation or risky for marine ecosystems? Follow for more frontier technology and future infrastructure.show more

China just turned a patch of open sea into... a 1 GW solar power plant that can electrify millions of homes As of early 2026, China has fully commissioned the world’s largest open-sea floating solar project off the coast of Dongying This 1 GW mega-farm sits on nearly 3,000 platforms and can power around 2.7 million homes China is turning its waterways into power plants. By blanketing lakes and coastal waters with millions of “floatovoltaic” panels, they’re easing the land crunch while boosting energy efficiency by up to 15% This is a blue energy revolutionshow more

China has successfully launched the world's first commercial underwater... data center. China's underwater data center in Hainan Province currently the only operational commercial facility of its kind in the world, has evolved to handle high-density AI computing. Key details include: 🔹Originally deployed in 2022, the facility has been expanded with new modules specifically designed for demanding AI training and cloud services. 🔹By sitting on the seabed, the sealed capsules utilize seawater for natural cooling, eliminating the need for energy-intensive air conditioning and saving massive amounts of freshwater and land. 🔹While it solves land and energy issues, researchers warn of potential risks to marine biodiversity, including local water warming and ocean deoxygenation. 🔹A second underwater data center is currently under construction near Shanghai.show more

JUST IN: China has installed the world's largest and... first offshore converter station, off the coast of Guangdong Province. The facility is a 500 kV, 2000 MW flexible DC offshore converter station designed to collect large amounts of electricity from offshore wind farms and transmit it efficiently to mainland China.show more

Water usage has been a hot topic in the... AI data center world, but the numbers may surprise you. According to the Manhattan Institute, data centers use 0.2 percent of daily water usage in the U.S. and that number has dramatically decreased in the past few years due to a new method: liquid cooling. By moving to 45°C liquid cooling, AI factories in favorable climates can use dry coolers instead of conventional cooling-tower-based systems, cutting facility cooling water use from roughly 2.6M gallons per MW per year to near zero. Liquid cooling enables AI factories to be both water and energy efficient, while creating opportunities for heat reuse and dispersal to local communities, allowing these factories to become energy grid assets. Learn more below ⬇️show more

Satya Nadella: Microsoft’s latest Wisconsin AI data center keeps... yearly water consumption no higher than that of 1 local restaurant. "The cooling loop is filled once and the data centre can operate effectively with zero water consumption. Daily water usage across a year is roughly equivalent to what a single restaurant would use" The mechanism is mainly about replacing evaporative cooling with closed-loop direct-to-chip liquid cooling, so water moves like coolant inside a sealed machine rather than being boiled off into the air. Hot GB200-class AI racks produce too much heat for normal air cooling, so cold liquid is pushed through pipes into the servers and across metal cold plates touching the hottest chips. The liquid enters the rack cool, absorbs heat from the chips through cold plates, then exits the rack at a higher temperature and carries that heat through pipes to a huge cooling system outside the compute floor. Microsoft says Fairwater sends that hot water to cooling “fins” beside the datacenter, where 172 20-foot fans blow air across the fins and dump the heat into the outside air. The important detail is that the air cools the water through metal surfaces, so the water does not need to evaporate the way many older datacenters use cooling towers. The cooled liquid then returns to the servers, repeats the loop, and keeps absorbing heat from the chips. In older data centers, heat is often removed partly through cooling towers. Hot water meets moving air, some water evaporates, and that phase change carries heat away. Effective, but it consumes fresh water continuously. But Firwater is a closed loop because the same coolant keeps circulating through sealed pipes: it absorbs heat from the chips, releases that heat through radiator-like fins, then flows back to the chips again. For Wisconsin Fairwater, Microsoft says more than 90% of the facility uses closed-loop liquid cooling, while the remaining portion uses outside air and switches to water only on the hottest days. ---- From "Microsoft" YouTube channel, (link in comment)show more

🇨🇳 CHINA BUILT A SOLAR EMPIRE ON THE ROOF... OF THE WORLD On the Tibetan Plateau, solar panels stretch farther than the eye can see - covering an area 7x the size of Manhattan. The Talatan Solar Park, plus wind and hydro, now powers everything from trains to AI data centers, while sheep still get to graze under the panels. Qinghai's clean energy is so cheap and efficient, it costs 40% less than coal, and helps China manufacture even more solar tech to sell worldwide. This is how China plans to win the future of energy: high-altitude, high-volume, and high stakes. Source: New York Timesshow more

All this used to be underwater Lake Mead is... on the border between Nevada and Arizona and it’s water levels are now critically low There are many Data Centers that have been put in the Lake Mead area and draw directly from the lake - Google’s Henderson data center consumed roughly 352 million gallons in one year. It directly pulls from the Lake Mead sourced municipal supply - Flexential Data Center facility used around 20 million gallons in one year - Other Data Centers in the area collectively used over 716 million gallons in 2024, with nearly all the water drawing from Colorado River and Lake Mead sources Pair this with droughts, water demand from agriculture and resident use and now there is almost nothing left… just look at this…. The lake is only at about 32% capacity Why is this being allowedshow more

🇨🇳 CHINA DROPS A GIANT: WORLD’S BIGGEST WIND TURBINE... China just planted the world’s largest offshore wind turbine - a 26-megawatt beast with a massive rotor. Once it’s plugged into the grid, this single unit will pump out 100 million kWh a year - enough juice for 55,000 households. One turbine, an entire city’s worth of power. While the West debates climate bills, China’s busy building megastructures that redefine the scale of clean energy. For perspective: Europe’s biggest offshore turbines max out around 15–18 MW. This one makes them look like pinwheels. The era of small green gestures is over. China’s turning the climate race into an arms race - and dropping titans into the sea. Source: CCTV, Xinhuashow more

🇺🇸 🇨🇳 CHINA JUST TOLD THE US TO KEEP... THEIR OLD NVIDIA CHIPS. Because they're smuggling the newest ones in. 🇻🇳 Taiwanese prosecutors just arrested three people for smuggling $NVDA AI chips into China. They forged documents to ship 50 Super Micro servers loaded with advanced Nvidia silicon to China, Macau, and Hong Kong. Some already cleared customs. Same company (Super Micro) whose US employees were indicted in March for allegedly diverting BILLIONS in Nvidia chips to China. The black market for Nvidia silicon is now one of the most lucrative trades on earth.show more

Someone built an AI you power with a hand... crank it is called CrankGPT and its running without any battery, internet or data centre just you turning a handle like it is 1900 SqueezLabs built it using a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB of RAM an audio card and a 20 watt hand crank generator it takes about 30 seconds of cranking to boot into a working voice assistant and the onboard capacitor gives you roughly 20 seconds of runtime before you have to start cranking again they have used it to generate small images even write code 🤯 this proves you can run a real AI model on almost no power while everyone is building billion dollar data centres two guys put AI in a boxshow more

🚨 BREAKING: Iran: "We have closed the Strait of... Hormuz. No Western ship can pass through here without our permission." 🇮🇷 US Navy: For the first time in history, it deployed 'Corsair' kamikaze maritime drones and destroyed Iran's submarine and ship maintenance facilities at the port of Bandar Abbas. 🇺🇸 This is no longer a warning. The US has used AI as a weapon at sea to eliminate the IRGC.show more

there is so much real data just sitting in... the open right now it's almost funny. four years of starlight on every star, a NASA archive that's been free for over a decade, detectors still recording the sky tonight, and barely anyone has a net pointed at any of it. so i pointed one. this is me pulling the planet data, the data loading is the boring part. the net i built to read it, the wall it hit, and what that taught me about where AI goes next, that's the full story, and it drops tonight. the data's public, the tools are free, the box fits on a desk. what's stopping you. you can just do things anon.show more

Have you walked the real Dragonstone? No CGI can... match that bridge, those cliffs, or the wind coming off the Bay of Biscay. Just off Spain’s northern coast, San Juan de Gaztelugatxe looks unreal because it is where Dragonstone came to life in Game of Thrones, the place where Daenerys first stepped onto Westeros. You climb 241 winding steps, ring the bell at the hermitage for luck, and the view hits you hard. Sea, stone, sky. That’s it. And the best part it is only about 35 minutes from Bilbao.show more

So I’ve lived in Hillsboro, Oregon for 10 years.... Drove around today and tonight and shot this myself. This is what the “Data Center Plains” looks like.👇 My town sits at the end of 6 transpacific sea cables connecting the US to Asia. That’s why 30+ data centers landed here. They’re everywhere. Spread across the entire north and west end of the city. Road after road. Building after building. Miles of it. And they keep building. Pushing further west every year into farmland that’s been here for generations. Buying up land, Giving mass amounts of money to home owners to move, Tearing down homes. Tearing down historic sites. $7.2 billion in exempted property taxes. Some of these finished buildings are literally sitting completely dark… PGE told them no power for 3-5 years. They still built them anyway. A power plant is now going up right next to the data centers because they maxed the local grid. There are families still living next to construction zones. Old farmhouses directly across the street from data center walls. Nobody asked the people who already lived here. These are the families who refused to leave, so they said we are just gonna put them up next to your houses anyway. A pioneer homestead from 1865, 190 years of continuous farming is about to be gone, NTT Global Data Centers got that land tax-free until 2051. Signed in a single day at City Hall. Intel, the employer that actually brought thousands of real jobs here is laying off locals at the same time. This sound runs 24 hours a day. 7 days a week. My electricity bill went from $80 to $150. Water rates are set to increase 105% over 5 years, critics say to fund data center infrastructure, not residents. Data centers aren’t a joke. Just wanted to share my first hand experience with them. #datacentersshow more

🚨🇨🇳China fires up world's first supercritical CO₂ waste heat... power plant The power station in the south-west Chinese province of Guizhou generates electricity from hot industrial exhaust gases, using carbon dioxide instead of steam. 🔸 The plant has 30 megawatt capacity in two 15 MW units – the world's largest and most advanced supercritical CO₂ plant 🔸 It converts steel plant exhaust heat into power 🔸 It uses CO₂ in the unusual ‘supercritical’ state in between liquid and gas, with no surface tension 🔸 The technology was adapted from nuclear power plants The plant is a breakthrough for heavy industry to cut emissions in the fight against climate change.show more

Netherlands: Massive wind turbine crashes to the ground as... a result of, you guessed it... the wind. 🤡 Wind turbines: Completely useless when the wind isn't blowing, and apparently even more useless when the wind is blowing. And to think we're closing down all our coal mines and power plants—which provided cheap and abundant energy—and replacing them with these expensive, inefficient and intermittent monstrosities, while China and India build coal plants like there's no tomorrow.show more

🇨🇳 CHINA UNVEILS WIND-POWERED OIL TANKER - IRONY SETS... SAIL China just launched the world’s first oil tanker that literally uses wind to help power itself. Not a sailboat, but a 110,000-ton tanker with giant metal wings sticking out like it's trying to fly. Each day it can save about 14.5 tons of fuel and avoid pumping 45 tons of CO₂ into the air. It’s basically the Prius of the ocean, except it's carrying crude oil. Source POV Mainland China on Instagramshow more

Erin Brockovich just launched a site called to track... AI data centers across the country. She’s gathering reports from communities dealing with massive water and electricity use, constant noise from cooling systems, and higher utility bills. Over a thousand people have already reported issues in just a few weeks. She’s pushing for transparency so Big Tech can’t keep making these deals behind closed doors. Erin launched the site at the end of April, and it took off immediately, they got flooded with reports within hours, so many it briefly crashed the submission form. As of this week, they’ve received over 2,700 community reports from 49 states. Water usage is the top complaint at about 41%, followed by strain on the power grid, health issues, noise, and impacts on wildlife. The map now shows 33 operational data centers, 44 under construction, and 27 proposed. She’s basically crowdsourcing the transparency Big Tech hasn’t been giving communities.show more