There are two global problems you probably don’t like to think about. First, burning gas and coal is still heating up the planet. Second, the thousands of AI data centers popping up all over the country consume enormous amounts of power, which produces even more carbon pollution – and drives up our electric bills. And as Garth Sheldon-Coulson says, this is not going to stop. “We’re still at the beginning of this demand,” he said.
Sheldon-Coulson, the CEO and co-founder of Panthalassa, in Vancouver, Wash., hopes to address both problems at once with wave energy. “The ocean is really unlimited in terms of how much energy is available,” he said. “It will really be the cheapest energy on the planet.”
He likened Panthalassa’s test model, the Ocean-2, to a floating hydroelectric dam. “As it goes up and down with the waves, it causes water that’s in that tube to be forced up
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