Jul 07, 2025 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
Japanese shipping giant Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has partnered with Kinetics, an energy systems provider, to develop a floating data center platform. Both companies are to collaborate on the design, construction, and deployment of a data center hosted on a retrofitted vessel.
The partnership will support an initial pilot project that involves the deployment of a 20 to 73MW data center (expandable depending on module configuration) on a 9,731-ton ship. The partners plan to connect the data center to an Internet Exchange on land and through submarine cables. The data center will utilize direct water cooling, using seawater or river water.
"This project represents a significant step toward our vision at Kinetics: delivering innovative, efficient, and sustainable infrastructure solutions that meet the energy needs of today and tomorrow," said Mehmet Katmer, CEO of Kinetics. "By pairing mobile power generation with floating data infrastructure, we are addressing critical market bottlenecks while enabling faster, cleaner, and more flexible digital capacity expansion."
