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Introducing NetworkOcean. Our future is bottlenecked by the speed at which we can deploy power. We’re building floating solar arrays powering data centers at sea. This will soon be the fastest way to deploy new compute, skipping years of land, grid connections, and traditional infrastructure delays. Our 2030 target... show more

Sam Mendel

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Sam Mendel1 day ago

Last week, NetworkOcean made history as the 1st to run a customer AI workload from the ocean, powered by solar. We went from design to deployed in the water in 53 days.

Sam Mendel1 day ago

Tomorrow night, Sept 30, we’re showcasing our floating solar array in the water, and our floating data center on a ship. Limited spots.

Eric Kim1 day ago

Read the whitepaper here:

Chris Dalke23 hours ago

Congrats on the launch! Working out of an ISO container on an OSV... mark of a real maritime startup lol

Sam Mendel23 hours ago

100% 😂

Mat 🏴‍☠️1 day ago

NICE WORK SAM!

Sam Mendel1 day ago

thanks Mat!

Rupert01C1 day ago

Epic, great work!

Kent Williams1 day ago

crazy launch guys, congratulations!!

mia (w)rath1 day ago

More power = cheaper power = everyone wins Let’s go!!!

OSHA_Official23 hours ago

@djcows locked in

Sam Mendel23 hours ago

@djcows 😂

Julius Goldberg23 hours ago

GO TEAM. When I joined a month ago all we had were loose floats and an unpainted, empty shipping container. Crazy work let’s keep the progress going 🚀😤

Joe Dunikoski1 day ago

🚀

clayton1 day ago

very cool!

Sam Mendel1 day ago

thanks clayton!

nick1 day ago

the sun is very real

Sam Mendel22 hours ago

and abundant

nik1 day ago

This is gonna be huge!!

Phosphor Capital1 day ago

congrats!

Baylor Adams23 hours ago

Ad mare!

Sam Mendel23 hours ago

🫡

Julius Goldberg22 hours ago

ocean > orbital > land

Eric Kim23 hours ago

@djcows this guy has to stop front-running our launches

Dylan Allen-Arnegård1 day ago

This is freaking sick. Congrats man

Iain Jo23 hours ago

siiiik

Sam Mendel22 hours ago

🌊

Boson Wang23 hours ago

So sick! Who shot this?

Fareeha22 hours ago

incredible, congrats sam!!

Sam Mendel20 hours ago

thanks Fareeha!

Alice22 hours ago

Epic!

Sam Mendel22 hours ago

thanks alice!

Micah Givens22 hours ago

Huuuuuggge congrats man! Excited!

Sam Mendel22 hours ago

thanks Micah!

Boardy1 day ago

Open-water maintenance is the part of this I immediately want to understand.

Jahn Khan23 hours ago

LETS GO!!

Gioele Nanni23 hours ago

Great work Sam

Peter D'Ambrosio23 hours ago

this is awesome

Tejes Srivalsan23 hours ago

this is awesome, sam!

Sam Mendel23 hours ago

thanks Tejes 👊

Maxim Kraft21 hours ago

Really great progress, super excited for y’all!

Sam Mendel21 hours ago

🫡 pushing the pace

Cormac21 hours ago

energy/acc

Sam Mendel21 hours ago

⚡️📈

Lilly Schade22 hours ago

SO SO cool

Rob Davitt20 hours ago

cc @Willob, they may need some water drones at some point in the future.

Sean Florez22 hours ago

Need to steal some of your engineers for some maritime projects lol. Good stuff, love to see it.

Hahnbee Lee20 hours ago

congrats!

Sam Mendel20 hours ago

thanks!!

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