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IT SOUNDS LIKE SCIENCE FICTION: The mysterious Kraaken would drink seawater, cool AI and 'spit out' electricity and drinking water

From Postimees · () Estonian

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  • The proposed Kraaken vessel would use temperature differences between surface and deep seawater, along with server heat, to generate electricity and drinking water while cooling an AI data center.
  • The concept remains technically possible in principle, but constructing a 100-megawatt floating plant would pose major engineering challenges.

Kraaken sounds like science fiction: a ship that could produce electricity and drinking water from the sea while running a powerful AI data center.

The concept would combine warm surface water, icy deep water and heat released by the servers. Its designers also envision a mobile facility that could simply move away when a storm approaches.

Physics does not rule out the idea. But building a floating plant with a capacity of 100 megawatts would require engineers to overcome several very major technical challenges.

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