While the tech giants of the world hunger for energy to power their massive data centers, one Chinese company is pushing a solution that would make Jacques Cousteau’s eyes light up: an underwater data center, powered by wind.

This week, Chinese firm HiCloud broke the mold by launching the first phase of the 24 megawatt facility off the coast of Shanghai, claiming a world first. According to New Atlas, 95 percent of the data center’s energy comes from offshore wind, while the facility itself is cooled by the cold ocean current.

All in all, it took $226 million to put together, and is estimated to cut total power consumption by around 23 percent, compared to traditional land-based data centers.

The news comes not even a month after HiCloud completed China’s first commercial undersea data

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