OPT, Stratum Join Forces on Renewable-Powered Offshore Data Centers

Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) and Stratum Holdings have signed a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) to explore the development of offshore data center assets powered by wave, wind and solar energy, combining renewable power platforms with high-performance computing infrastructure.

The proposed collaboration would integrate OPT's PowerBuoy technology with Stratum's GPU infrastructure, including its latest-generation NVIDIA B300 GPUs, to test the feasibility of running edge AI inference and related computing workloads offshore without a power connection to shore.

Under the LOI, the companies would negotiate definitive agreements under which OPT would grant Stratum a limited, non-exclusive license to certain PowerBuoy patents and provide prototype platforms currently on hand.

Stratum would contribute GPU assets and integration expertise, as well as pay OPT a monthly retainer under the terms of the definitive agreements.

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