Key Points

• The facility near Shanghai is now operating commercially as an underwater data center powered largely by offshore wind.
• Seawater is used as a passive heat sink, reducing cooling needs compared with conventional land-based centers.
• The project is designed around about 24 MW of capacity, with current operations reported around 2.3 MW in pilot or initial use.
• The site reportedly contains roughly 192 server racks, including GPU-oriented workloads tied to AI and data processing.
• Officials and company reporting emphasize lower land use, reduced electricity consumption, and high renewable energy share.
• Engineering risks remain significant, especially corrosion, pressure sealing, subsea cable reliability, and maintenance access.
• The deployment is being treated as a practical test of whether underwater computing can scale beyond experimentation.