OCEANIC NEXUS
Driven by Data Centers Based on Energy and Information Cycles
Created Feb 23, 2025 - Last updated: Apr 18, 2025


Design Background
With the rapid growth of cloud computing and AI, traditional land-based data centers face mounting challenges in energy consumption and heat dissipation. Emerging underwater data center technologies offer a more sustainable alternative, leveraging seawater for natural cooling and significantly reducing PUE and land usage. However, these systems continuously discharge low-grade thermal wastewater, posing risks of local marine thermal pollution.
At the same time, the marine aquaculture industry is shifting toward deep-sea operations, which demand stable thermal conditions and efficient energy solutions—particularly for high-value species like abalone or tropical fish. By recycling waste heat from subsea data centers to support controlled aquaculture environments, we envision a closed-loop synergy between energy, ecology, and economy.
This project explores a self-sufficient oceanic system driven by underwater data centers, integrating energy flow, information flow, and marine production into a four-dimensional circular model. The core concept:
“Dual-Driven, Fourfold Loop” — connecting data infrastructure, marine farming, scientific research, and service industries into a sustainable, co-evolving platform.

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