{"id":32326,"date":"2026-07-28T19:18:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=32326"},"modified":"2026-07-28T19:18:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:18:32","slug":"wave-firm-mocean-takes-data-centres-out-to-sea-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=32326","title":{"rendered":"Wave firm Mocean takes data centres out to sea \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Visualisation-of-Blue-Core-at-sea.-Image-source-Mocean-Energy.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-198146 lazyload\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"998\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Visualisation-of-Blue-Core-at-sea.-Image-source-Mocean-Energy.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-198146 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Visualisation-of-Blue-Core-at-sea.-Image-source-Mocean-Energy.png 998w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Visualisation-of-Blue-Core-at-sea.-Image-source-Mocean-Energy-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Visualisation-of-Blue-Core-at-sea.-Image-source-Mocean-Energy-768x462.png 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Visualisation-of-Blue-Core-at-sea.-Image-source-Mocean-Energy-600x361.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 998px) 100vw, 998px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A vi<\/em>s<em>ualisation of Blue Core (pic: Mocean Energy)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">An energy company believes it has the solution to growing concerns over the visual and environmental impact of data centres. It is planning to take them out to sea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Mocean Energy is developing Blue Core, an offshore data centre which draws on wave energy, solar and battery storage to power on-board AI server racks without a grid connection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Edinburgh-based company is now raising \u00a35 million in a pre-Series A round to develop the technology. It has already secured more than half the total.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The project comes amid a backlash against hyperscale data centres, some larger than the villages where developers want to build them. Concerns include the demands being put on the grid and water supplies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Mocean\u2019s modular units can be joined together to create server farms, with the temperature controlled by the North Sea. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">By using a closed-loop system that exchanges heat with the ocean, cooling is expected to consume around 5% of the energy budget, compared with 15% to 35% at onshore data centres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The new offshore data centre concept builds on Mocean\u2019s existing Blue Star offshore power system, which has completed 18 months of full-scale sea testing with offshore energy companies and technology developers. Mocean has secured an additional Blue Star pilot, targeting first sales in 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Blue Core\u2019s first offshore demonstrator and early commercial deployments are expected from 2030, with a 10-year goal of 6 GW capacity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Cameron McNatt, managing director, said: \u201cWe\u2019ve spent years proving this technology works in some of the harshest sea conditions anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBlue Core takes that same proven system and points it at a much bigger problem. AI data centres are going to need more power than the grid can easily give them, and the ocean can provide that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re not trying to build another data centre. We\u2019re trying to remove the barriers around power, land and social licensing that are currently holding the industry back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Daily Business Bulletin<\/strong>:\u00a0Subscribe here for our morning bulletin of breaking news<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.6.0) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#Wave #firm #Mocean #takes #data #centres #sea #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A visualisation of Blue Core (&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[18851,266,15769,265,1059,18852,1182,18854,18853,1519,2793,1546],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}