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This young startup wants to power floating data centers with the ocean’s heat, and investors are already on board

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This young startup wants to power floating data centers with the ocean’s heat, and investors are already on board

Drogue is harvesting heat from the ocean to power data centers on floating vessels. The first prototype should be bobbing around the ocean, crunching bits, in less than two years.

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