Mousterian Corporation and Samsung Heavy Industries have signed an engineering contract to jointly design and build moor
Mousterian Corporation, Inc., a developer of water-adjacent data center infrastructure based in Dallas, and Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., one of the world's largest shipbuilders, announced on August 3, 2026, the signing of an engineering contract for their first moored floating data center deployment in the United States. The agreement was executed at a signing ceremony held on July 22, 2026, and advances the strategic cooperation framework the parties announced in April 2026.
Under the engineering contract, the two companies will jointly perform the basic design, detailed engineering, and production design for purpose-built moored floating data center units, each delivering 50 megawatts of critical IT capacity. These facilities are planned for deployment in Texas and other key U.S. markets. The engineering program establishes the technical baseline for a definitive Engineering, Procurement, and Construction contract that the parties intend to execute upon or prior to completion of the engineering works. The American Bureau of Shipping is expected to serve as classification society for the project.
The data center design emphasizes sustainability and environmental sensitivity alongside rapid delivery. Each facility employs bulk non-evaporative cooling that consumes no potable water and returns zero process discharge to the surrounding waterway. The design supports facility-scale, high-density, liquid-cooled AI compute at very low power usage effectiveness. By eliminating air-cooled chillers and fans that dominate conventional data centers, each facility operates with a minimal noise profile, meaningfully reducing noise pollution for surrounding communities.
Min Suh, Chief Executive Officer of Mousterian Corporation, stated that signing the engineering contract transitions their partnership with Samsung Heavy Industries from intent to execution and provides a clear path to scaling factory-built critical IT capacity for AI-class facilities. He emphasized that the facility will be fabricated off-site to shipyard standards, allowing fabrication to advance in parallel with sitework rather than sequentially, and that by siting these facilities alongside existing stranded baseload generation and maritime infrastructure, they reach power that land-based development cannot.
Sung-an Choi, Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Samsung Heavy Industries, described floating data centers as a natural extension of the company's five-decade engineering and project delivery track record in offshore and maritime construction, and expressed the intention to deliver floating data centers with the same rigor, quality, and schedule certainty that define Samsung Heavy Industries' maritime record.
The pilot deployment is designed to demonstrate that purpose-built floating data centers sited adjacent to existing power generation assets can materially compress delivery timelines for hyperscale and AI compute by unlocking generation capacity beyond the reach of conventional land-based sites.