The world’s first commercial underwater data center, planned off the coast of Hainan Island, China First Commercial Underwater Data Center in The World Work has begun on the world’s first commercial underwater data center, planned off the coast of Hainan Island, China. Chinese marine firm Offshore Oil Engineering Company (COOEC) has begun making a full-scale data cabin at its Tianjin Lingang manufacturing site, to be deployed in 20m deep water off the coast of the Hainan Free Trade Port in a project announced in May 2021. Leader of the project Underwater Data Center, Highlander, has previously conducted trials of data...