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ABS Details Design Considerations For Floating Nuclear-Powered Data Centres

By David Dalton
6 June 2025

Servers and reactors could be deployed on purpose-built barges

ABS Details Design Considerations For Floating Nuclear-Powered Data Centres
Christopher Wiernicki said moving data centres offshore and powering them with onboard nuclear energy could mitigate certain risks. Courtesy ABS.
The US-based classification society American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has published a study on floating nuclear-powered data centres, detailing design considerations that support the rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing and crypto currencies.

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