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An aerial view of flood damage wrought by Hurricane Helene in
Asheville, North Carolina, in 2024
The rationale behind the latest designs No one could ever accuse Optimal Transit of suffering from a lack of ideas or ambition. Companies like Panthalassa, which develop floating data centres, have been showered with praise lately. Kraaken’ s designs take this concept ten steps further, combining compute capacity with mobile power and water relief, as well as on-board, wireless energy generation.
But why exactly did Optimal Transit decide to introduce these extra elements to what was already a complex concept? Jeff Kline, the President of InMar Technologies, says the shift in thinking was brought about by a simple question.
“ When we introduced the Kraaken as a data centre platform, we presented a self-powered, zero-emission vessel designed to dedicate its full capacity to compute,” he explains.
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