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This young startup wants to power floating data centers with the ocean’s heat, and investors are already on board

Headline via TechCrunch · first report 14 Nov, 01:37 IST, latest 14 Nov, 01:37 IST

Server racks in a data centre
Representational image · Server racks in a data centre · Carl Lender from Sunrise, USA / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

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First report14 Nov, 01:37 IST
Latest report14 Nov, 01:37 IST
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Drogue is harvesting heat from the ocean to power data centers on floating vessels. The first prototype should be bobbing around the ocean, crunching bits, in less than two years.

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