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  • Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel backs $140M wave-powered AI data center startup — Panthalassa aims to run offshore compute nodes using ocean energy

    05/12/2026 5:11:34 PM PDT · by Twotone · 21 replies
    Tom's Hardware ^ | May 5, 2026 | Etiido Uko
    An official press release yesterday confirmed a $140 million investment to power AI data centers at sea. The funding goes to Pathanlassa — a renewable energy and ocean technology company — and was raised in a Series B financing led by avid investor and former PayPal CEO and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, alongside several other investors. The Portland-based start-up said it would use the funding to complete its pilot manufacturing facility in Oregon for its Ocean-3 series nodes — an autonomous platform that will house and power data centers for AI inference computing at sea, using electricity generated from ocean...
  • JAPAN TESTED A GIANT TURBINE THAT GENERATES ELECTRICITY USING DEEP OCEAN CURRENTS AND THE TEST WENT GREAT.

    06/03/2022 6:52:31 PM PDT · by American Number 181269513 · 81 replies
    Camden Media ^ | June 3, 2022 | VICTOR TANGERMANN
    In the wake of the devastating nuclear meltdown at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant in 2011, officials have been hunting for new sources of green energy — and they're leaving no stone unturned. A heavy machinery maker in Japan called IHI Corp has successfully tested a prototype of a massive, airplane-sized turbine that can generate electricity from powerful deep sea ocean currents, Bloomberg reports, laying the groundwork for a promising new source of renewable energy that doesn't rely on sunny days or strong winds. The company's latest prototype is called Kairyu and weighs in at 330 tons. Two counter-rotating turbine fans...