Wind turbines were built for electricity, but engineers now see their towers as cooling machines for AI data centers (opens in new tab)

China's new subsea data center uses offshore wind and ocean cooling for AI. Is this the future of tech infrastructure? The race to feed artificial intelligence no longer stops at the edge of a power grid. Off Shanghai’s eastern coast, China has started operating what it describes as the world’s first undersea data center directly powered by offshore wind, using the sea itself to help cool the servers. It sounds almost like science fiction, but at the center of this project is a very practical...