Samsung wants to bring a floating data center to Texas — huge waterborne facility could offer 50MW of capacity and…

• Samsung advances floating data center project with first Texas engineering agreement
• Floating facilities promise 50MW capacity while reducing traditional construction timelines significantly
• Texas grid review creates fresh uncertainty for expanding data center developments statewide

Samsung Heavy Industries and Dallas-based Mousterian Corporation have signed an engineering contract covering their first floating data center project planned for deployment in Texas.

The deal advances their partnership into the engineering phase, with both companies jointly responsible for the project's basic design, detailed engineering, and production planning.

Each proposed floating facility is expected to provide 50 MW of critical IT capacity while operating on water instead of occupying conventional land-based development sites.

A shipyard-built facility moored beside a power plant

The pilot site is expected to sit next to an existing combined-cycle gas turbine power plant located in Houston, according to reporting on the plan.

Mousterian believes the shipyard construction approach could shorten delivery schedules...

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