Floating Infrastructure for Data Centers, Power Production and Potable Water
Data centers need a lot of power. Nuclear energy has been reinvigorated to support the growing demand for power. Both data centers and power plants need a lot of water for cooling and other purposes. Let's build them side by side and float them in the ocean past the horizon of major coastal cities. Make it a trifecta by having a desalination plant option; these are also power hungry. I proposed some of these in 2010 , as part of my platform for Mayor of Honolulu, to enhance the infrastructure resilience for one million people in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Five years later, a group from MIT and other researchers launched an initiative to add substance to this concept ... Floating on the deep sea . Nowadays the concept is gaining production scale : "Samsung Heavy Industries is pioneering floating nuclear power plants (FNPP) by developing barges equipped with compact molten salt reactors (CMSR) or Small Modular Reactors (SMR)." The floating infrastructure proposals ...