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Samsung is building floating data centers on ships, and it's already got regulatory approval (www.techspot.com)
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[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 points 8 hours ago

If the electricity comes from renewable sources, it is no (global) problem. In that case, you've just taken the sun's energy from one place (solar panel, wind turbine, etc.) and moved it elsewhere (the ocean). That's fine, that energy was going to end up heating the Earth in any case.

This is very different from greenhouse gas emissions, as those increase the total amount of energy the sun delivers to Earth, changing the global balance.