Dallas-Headquartered Mousterian Emerges From Stealth to Create 'Floating Data Centers' With Samsung Heavy Industries

Dallas-based Mousterian Corp. (M3) has officially launched from stealth, announcing a strategic partnership with Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) to jointly develop and deliver "institutional-grade floating data center projects worldwide." M3, specializing in floating and water-adjacent data center infrastructure, will manage development, site origination, tenant sourcing, and project delivery for these ventures. According to M3 CEO Min Suh, the company's innovative approach seeks to bypass the extensive "5+ year interconnection queues" currently hindering AI infrastructure development in the U.S. Instead of building new power infrastructure, M3 plans to deploy fully liquid-cooled data centers on barges adjacent to existing underutilized baseload generation, particularly at water-cooled thermal plants. This strategy is expected to compress development timelines from years to quarters, enabling faster deployment of much-needed data hall capacity. Samsung Heavy Industries, a global leader in shipbuilding with a U.S. office in Houston, will contribute its engineering, fabrication, and delivery expertise for large-scale floating maritime assets. The partnership leverages SHI's industrial scale and M3's data center development capabilities, aiming to provide a reliable path to "gigawatt-scale delivery on timelines that conventional approaches simply cannot match." Suh emphasized that "speed to power is the new moat" in the industry, and the collaboration intends to unlock stranded generation capacity beyond traditional land-based sites.