Samsung: It's Time for Floating Data Centers
7 hours ago
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- #Sustainable Cooling
- #AI Infrastructure
- Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) launches floating data centers, partnering with U.S. developer Mousterian for initial deployment in Houston.
- Key features of the Houston project: fully energized site with no impact on ratepayers, uses local water for cooling (no potable water), and operates with low noise and vibration.
- Samsung collaborates with OpenAI to accelerate global AI data center deployments, focusing on floating data centers and floating power plants.
- Floating data centers address challenges like land scarcity, lower cooling costs, and reduce carbon emissions, overcoming past limitations in cost and complexity.
- SHI and Mousterian believe near-power floating data centers can shorten development timelines and utilize stranded generation capacity.