alt Hacker NewsThere was one barge DC from Nautilus[0]. The problem was to get the amount of power they needed shore power, and fiber from there. Undersea is absolutely crazy to me. But surface vessels are interesting. I wonder what you do: tie a massive gas tanker to a powership (ocean sees night - space doesn't) and then put a container ship full of chips nearby? International waters aren't that far off, so you could reasonably run a fiber line back to shore for interconnect but to get actual full decoupling, I suppose you'd use Starlink.
Sounds terrific actually haha. Boy would that be a sight to behold.
0: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/nautilus-puts-sto...
No, you just use solar panels on the container ship. The same ones you'd use on a satellite.
There are thousands of container ships in international waters at any given time, so you wouldn't install a few massive power-hungry data centers on a few ships. You'd put a lot of PV-powered data centers on a lot of ships. Pretend you launched them into space, in other words... but don't actually launch them.
And yes, you'd network them via Starlink, just like the satellites would be.