Aikido Technologies, an offshore infrastructure provider, has unveiled AO60DC, a floating offshore wind platform designed to co-locate AI-grade compute with floating wind generation and integrated battery energy storage. Aikido says the platform targets sovereign, gigawatt-scale AI infrastructure built at the source of renewable energy, positioned as an option for developers facing constraints on energy, land, and water for large onshore data center campuses.
Aikido says AO60DC is designed to host 10 MW to 12 MW of AI-grade compute alongside a 15 MW to 18 MW+ wind turbine and integrated battery energy storage. The company positions the design for offshore “farms” ranging from 30 MW to more than 1 GW of information technology (IT) load. Aikido also says units can be deployed within 200 mi of major compute load centers, with less than 10 ms round-trip time (RTT), in sovereign waters.
Aikido says the onboard wind turbine and battery energy storage system (BESS) are designed to power the compute load for the majority of operating hours, with a grid connection used primarily during summer months. It also says batteries can be pre-charged ahead of grid stress events to shorten effective grid-connection timelines for new capacity. For cooling, Aikido reports the platform is expected to reach Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) below 1.08 using a passive primary cooling system that transfers heat through the steel hull into surrounding seawater.
Mechanically, Aikido says it combines its proprietary wind turbine substructure and the data center enclosure into a single steel unit to reduce capital and operating costs and simplify integration. The company says the data halls can be pre-fabricated in a factory and lifted into place during final integration. At the core of the concept is Aikido’s modular “flat-pack” semi-submersible floating platform, which it says can be assembled up to ten times faster than conventional offshore structures; Aikido also notes semi-submersible platforms have been deployed by oil and gas and floating wind operators for 25+ years.
Aikido says the units can be installed and serviced using vessels already active in offshore wind and deepwater oil and gas, with maintenance response times comparable to conventional data centers, and that platforms can be manned for days at a time to help server uptime meet typical data center standards. A proof-of-concept unit is under development in Norway and is scheduled for deployment later in 2026. Aikido also reports it is a member of the NVIDIA Inception program, and that its first commercial project is targeted for the UK with a planned operational date of 2028.
Source: Aikido Technologies
