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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Jowi Morales

Startup plans to put nuclear-powered data centers in the sea — modular units could be much faster to deploy, but questions about reliability and longevity remain

A 3D render of an Atomarine ocean-based data center.

Data centers on land are facing increasing opposition and having a hard time getting off the ground — from power connection issues that can take months or years to resolve, to neighborhood concerns about noise and air pollution, as well as their impact on the local water supply. One startup called Atomarine wants to solve this by building nuclear-powered data centers on barges and deploying them at sea.

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