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"Panthalassa, backed by Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley firms, raised $140M to build floating, wave-powered data centers — as SpaceX pitches solar-powered orbital data centers — a race to control the energy and compute that AI requires."
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Forbes — Thiel-Backed Ocean & Orbital AI Data Centers
Forbes and press coverage of Panthalassa's $140M Series B and SpaceX orbital-compute filings (2026)
Author
Forbes / company press releases
Date
2026
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DOCUMENTED: the funding round, backers, and the space/sea data-center concepts are publicly announced. SPECULATIVE: whether either approach reaches commercial viability — the companies' own filings warn of 'unproven technologies.'

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Forbes and company press releases on Panthalassa (Thiel, Doerr, TIME Ventures, Gigascale) and SpaceX S-1 disclosures regarding orbital data centers, 2026.

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Scholarly SynthesisThe AI Power Grab: Compute, Energy & Who Controls the Future
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