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x.com/heyshrutimishr… Located in the Clearwater Bay area of ​​Lingshui Li Autonomous County, Hainan Province, this project marks the world's first commercial underwater data center. Weighing 1,300 tons, the facility utilizes seawater for natural cooling—offering advantages such as energy, water, and land conservation—while simultaneously providing highly reliable computing services. Concurrently, China launched a plan in 2025 to construct space-based data centers. This initiative aims to deploy large-scale computing infrastructure in orbit over a ten-year period, executed in three distinct phases. Positioned in a dawn-dusk orbit at an altitude of 700 to 800 kilometers above the Earth, these facilities can achieve continuous 24-hour solar power supply, thereby eliminating the need for energy storage batteries. Each individual data center is designed to exceed 1 GW in power capacity and accommodate server clusters on the scale of millions of cards, effectively addressing the energy, heat dissipation, and computing power bottlenecks currently confronting terrestrial data centers.