Boston-based Atomarine is developing nuclear-powered data centers at sea. The approach is being touted as an alternative to land-based data centers, which are facing mounting opposition.
“We move compute offshore,” says CEO Dimitris Koutentakis.
Atomarine argues that onshore data centers face grid interconnection queues that can run four to seven years, a projected 35–49 gigawatt shortfall in firm power by 2030, and rising community opposition tied to land, water, and electricity costs — factors it says have stalled more than half of planned U.S. data center projects since 2025. Moving offshore, it argues, removes the interconnection queue and community-impact issues and allows roughly four times the deployment speed of land-based construction.
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