{"id":234307,"date":"2026-06-20T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/china-is-taking-its-ai-boom-under-the-sea\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T17:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T21:00:17","slug":"china-is-taking-its-ai-boom-under-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/china-is-taking-its-ai-boom-under-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"China Is Taking Its AI Boom Under the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Energy\/Energy-General\/China-Is-Taking-Its-AI-Boom-Under-the-Sea.html\">China Is Taking Its AI Boom Under the Sea<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Energy\/Energy-General\/China-Is-Taking-Its-AI-Boom-Under-the-Sea.html\">https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Energy\/Energy-General\/China-Is-Taking-Its-AI-Boom-Under-the-Sea.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-20 15:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"oilprice.com\">oilprice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The data centre industry has seen significant growth in recent years, with a demand for massive computing power, especially for artificial intelligence applications.<\/li>\n<li>China launched the world\u2019s first wind-powered underwater data centre off the coast of Shanghai powered by an offshore wind farm, aiming to reduce energy, water, and land use compared to traditional data centres.<\/li>\n<li>The Shanghai Lingang undersea data centre is fully submerged 10 metres below water, utilizing green energy and natural cooling to significantly reduce freshwater resources consumption and land use.<\/li>\n<li>According to the Chinese government, the project uses over 95% green electricity which reduces energy consumption by 22.8%, and land and water use by 100% and over 90% respectively, compared to land-based data centres.<\/li>\n<li>The UN predicts that data centres could consume around 9.3 trillion litres of water by 2030, suggesting an urgent need for innovative, more environmentally friendly data centre technologies.<\/li>\n<li>Other industries are exploring alternative data centre locations; for instance, Samsung Heavy Industries and Hitachi are developing floating data centre models to reduce freshwater and land use.<\/li>\n<li>Although risks to marine ecosystems exist from underwater data centres, industry experts believe any environmental impact will mainly be localized and manageable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Is Taking Its AI Boom Under the Sea https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Energy\/Energy-General\/China-Is-Taking-Its-AI-Boom-Under-the-Sea.html Publish Date: 2026-06-20 15:00:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/d32r1sh890xpii.cloudfront.net\/article\/1200x675\/2026-06-18_whuipa0lj1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-234307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234309,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234307\/revisions\/234309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}