DATASHIP: Floating AI Infrastructure

We decouple the engine shaft and shaft-driven generators to produce variable frequency alternating current that is rectified onto a direct current link, flows through a sectionalized voltage bus, and steps down immediately adjacent to the uninterruptible power supply and compute.

Layered backup comes from a redundant auxiliary generator plant sized to carry the full compute load (N+1 redundancy) on its own and a standards-based interface for shore or marine supplied external power enabling future potential for interconnection. No single power path is ever critical.

Cooling is completed with direct-to-chip cooling via CDUs on closed freshwater loops, followed by our proprietary two-stage primary cooling architecture: heat rejection via an intermediary closed freshwater loop, followed by a final open-loop seawater process, with no chillers anywhere in the chain, yielding a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.10 to 1.15.

N+1 redundancy is supplied across pumps, exchangers, and CDUs. Zero municipal water is used onboard.

Primary connectivity is provided via co-located subsea fiber terminated onboard at 800Gbe, delivering 0.1ms RTT latency. Bonded 100Gbps free-space optical links serve as secondary connectivity, enabling 0.5ms RTT latency.

LEO / GEO satellite provides triple redundancy and satellite preserves command, telemetry, and management traffic through any primary outage. The composite of two or more independent paths is engineered to 99.99%+ availability, under one hour of communications downtime per year.

Partner & customer supplied racks, and compute hardware sit in patent-pending pre-fabricated marine-grade containerized modules.

Modules consist of isolation mounts tuned for machinery vibration and roll/heave/pitch, seismic-grade bracing, chloride protection, marine fire suppression, and layered EMI defense. Carbon Ridge works with our customers on integration of customer-furnished compute infrastructure with our marine-grade modules.

The vessel becomes the land. Land entitlement, air permitting & community reviews are replaced by centralized vessel classification processes through Classification Society, Flag State, and regional bodies such as USCG. Streamlined processes standardized in the marine & offshore industry.

Proprietary emissions treatment removes 99% of SOx, NOx, and PM, and CO₂ capture modules reduce up to 90% CO₂ at <10% total parasitic load. CO₂ is liquefied and stored in Type-C deck tanks; Carbon Ridge and our partners ensure offloading and permanent sequestration and in the US, monetization of the Section 45(q) tax credit ($85/ton).

Net: ~70–80 kg CO₂/MWh, versus ~400 kg CO₂/MWh for land-based combined cycle gas and 600 kg CO₂/MWh for simple-cycle peakers, an 80 to 90% reduction against comparable land-based generation.