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Integrated Ocean Compute Nodes: A Systems Architecture for Seawater-Cooled Data Centers with Closed-Loop Waste-to-Energy and Environmental Remediation
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This provisional patent proposes a mobile ocean-based data center architecture that integrates seawater cooling, onboard plastic waste harvesting with pyrolysis conversion to marine fuel, and hybrid solar power — positioning simultaneous AI compute, fuel generation, and ocean plastic remediation as a commercially aligned multi-revenue platform.
Provisional patent: This paper proposes an integrated systems architecture for mobile ocean-based data centers thatcombines seawater cooling, onboard plastic waste harvesting with pyrolysis conversion tosupplemental marine fuel, hybrid solar-generator power systems, and a future pathway towardseawater lithium extraction. Each subsystem component draws on validated technology with existingcommercial or pilot-stage precedent. The novel contribution is the integration of these subsystemsinto a single mobile platform that simultaneously provides high-efficiency AI compute capacity,generates supplemental fuel from environmental waste, and performs ocean plastic remediation as acontinuous operational byproduct. We present preliminary energy balance estimates, identify keyengineering constraints, and propose a phased deployment roadmap. The architecture is positioned asa response to the converging pressures of AI infrastructure scaling, freshwater scarcity, coastal landconstraints, and ocean pollution, offering a multi-revenue platform that aligns commercial computedemand with environmental remediation.
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