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Mocean Energy raises £5m to put AI data centres out to sea
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Mocean Energy, the Edinburgh-based wave energy company, is raising £5 million to develop a floating data centre powered by wave and solar energy, with a pilot targeted for 2028 and full deployment from 2030.
It is aiming for first commercial sales of that product in 2028, the same year it hopes to have the Blue Core pilot running.
Microsoft’s Project Natick, a subsea data centre deployed in 2018, spent two years underwater off Orkney.
Grid queue and planning pressureThe National Energy System Operator (Neso) estimates there is 60 gigawatts of data centre capacity waiting to join the high-voltage transmission network.
Similar arguments have been made elsewhere, including over the gas-powered data centre proposed at Wapseys Wood.