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Global data-centre electricity use doubles by 2030.
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Floating AI data centres / 30 MW
AI capacity, delivered from the water.
Platform 30 develops standard 30 MW AI data centres that float in with their own power plant. We bring capacity to coastal hubs where the grid and land cannot deliver in time.
Talk to us- 30 MW
- IT capacity per unit
- ~50 MW
- on-board power, N+1
- ~18 months
- from financing to operation
Now developing the reference design and first sites in the US and Europe.
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01 The need
AI demand is outrunning the grid.
30–55GW
Projected US generation-capacity gap by 2030.
McKinsey ↗6.3%
Record-low vacancy across Europe's core data-centre hubs.
CBRE ↗New data centres wait years for a grid connection. AI companies need capacity now.
02 How it works
Power arrives with the data centre.
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Secure a berth.
An industrial port berth with fibre, close to the customer. Gas comes by pipeline or as LNG stored on board.
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Build in a yard.
A shipyard builds the standard unit while the berth is prepared, in parallel.
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Tow, connect, run.
The unit is towed in and connected. The customer installs its GPUs and goes live.
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How we deliver
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Platform 30
We develop the architecture and originate each project, from site and customer to financial close.
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Qualified shipyards
Build each unit to our standard design.
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Project companies
Own and finance each unit. A specialist data-centre operator runs it to the customer's SLA.
04 The unit
One standard unit. Built to scale.
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Concept geometry, not to scale for constructionPower, fuel, fibre
- Capacity 30 MW IT per unit; sites scale to 120+ MW
- Power ~50 MW of on-board gas engines, N+1
- Fuel Pipeline gas or on-board LNG
- Cooling Liquid cooling for AI racks up to ~120 kW
- Resilience Tier III-style design, Design PUE ~1.15
- Platform Purpose-built barge, moored at an industrial berth
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Why Platform 30
Certainty of date.
No grid queue. Power, cooling and the data hall arrive together, at a berth already zoned for industry.
Why on water
No land to assemble or rezone: we use an existing industrial berth. The yard builds the unit while the berth is prepared, and a site grows by adding units.
One standard, adapted to each site.
One architecture for data centre, power, cooling and marine systems, adapted to each port and customer.
Any qualified yard.
Yard-neutral by design: we build with the best yard for each project, and every new unit builds on the last.
Bankable by design.
Each unit is a self-contained project, structured for infrastructure capital from day one.
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Built for
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AI clouds that need 20–50 MW by a fixed date.
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Sovereign AI programmes.
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Hyperscalers that need fast bridge capacity.
07 Team
A team that has delivered first-of-a-kind offshore and energy assets
Team combined experience
65+ years
in marine, offshore and energy infrastructure
George Shevardenidze
Founder
- 15 years in marine and offshore; 5 in enterprise AI and ML
- ~$2bn of first-of-a-kind offshore and energy assets, on the owner side
- Ex oil major (owner side), DNV GL, TÜV Rheinland
Dmitrij Piazenko
Technical Advisor, Marine & Offshore
- 25 years in marine and offshore
- 10+ major offshore projects, including Kashagan; 200+ marine operations
- Ex Germanischer Lloyd, Noble Denton
Christian Völcker
Technical Advisor, Energy & Infrastructure
- 25+ years in energy and offshore wind, from the first German offshore projects
- Led engineering and offshore construction on large offshore wind programmes
- Ex Northland Power, TÜV Rheinland, E.ON
Let's talk.
- Need 20–50 MW by a fixed date? Tell us your location, capacity and start date.
- Investors: request the company overview.
- Ports and partners: explore a site partnership.