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FLAGSHIP · SENTIENT FUTURES · APRIL 2026

Governing the Ocean Server Farm

As of 2026, China runs the world's first commercial underwater data centre off Hainan Island, Japan's MOL-Kinetics-Hitachi consortium is scoping floating compute vessels, and a tidal-powered underwater facility has filed with FERC in Maine. None of it is covered by a dedicated regulatory regime.

This paper argues ocean-deployed AI compute triggers three failures at once: no peer-reviewed environmental impact assessment exists for any commercial deployment, existing maritime and power-plant law doesn't cleanly cover sealed compute capsules, and offshore platforms can dodge compute thresholds in the EU AI Act and California's frontier AI law. ITLOS found heat counts as pollution under UNCLOS; the BBNJ Agreement now requires environmental review for this kind of project. Grounded in a West Coast case study, the paper proposes a governance path forward.

OPEN SOURCE POLICY HUB

AI Policy Hub for BC Healthcare

An open-source hub tracking AI policy relevant to healthcare in British Columbia.

NATIONAL AI STRATEGY

Multi-domain AI Forecasting Tool & Policy Recommendations

Forecasting AI policy trajectories out to 2030 across competition, coalition, and catastrophe scenarios.

APART RESEARCH · AIxBIO HACKATHON

AIxBio Safety Research Assessment Tool

Scores publications on feasibility, novelty, TRL, and relevance to biosecurity and healthcare AI safety.