Mike Schroepfer (Gigascale), Garth Sheldon-Coulson (Panthalassa) - Computing on the High Seas

Show Notes

At Presidio Bitcoin’s Type I Summit, Mike “Shrep” Schroepfer (Gigascale), and Garth Sheldon-Coulson (Panthalassa), discuss building data centers and power systems out at sea: tapping wave energy for cheap, abundant electricity, natural cooling, and rapid scaling without grid constraints. They dig into why the ocean could support 10-15 terawatts of clean power, how AI inference and Bitcoin mining can operate off-grid, and what energy abundance means for the future. Timestamps: 0:00 — Introductions 06:02 — Why Build at Sea 11:38 — Cheap Power, Easy Cooling 16:24 — Training vs. Inference at Sea 19:47 — How Big Can This Get? 24:35 — Future of Energy & Energy-Politics: Who Builds the New Power? 30:31 — Heating Homes With Bitcoin Mining 🎧 From the Type I Summit recorded at 📍Presidio Bitcoin 🌐 Learn more: https://www.type1summit.org/