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Compute at Sea

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Y Combinator

Request for Startups

Elevator Pitch

AI is running out of compute, power and land for data centers. Move compute offshore with fleets of standardized, modular vessels working together as one global cloud.

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Data center demand is insatiable, but new sites take years to approve and win power, and can be blocked locally.

The idea: The ocean covers 70% of the Earth, has abundant sunlight, no land permitting and is an enormous natural heat sink. "Compute flotillas" of many standardized, modular vessels could operate together as one global cloud.

YC wants to fund founders bringing the world's compute to the oceans.

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