11:53 - 16.06.2023

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June 16, Fineko/abc.az. Japanese startup N-Ark has announced plans to build a futuristic floating city built on sea-cooled data centres and cutting-edge medical care, and has launched a consortium to realise its vision.

N-Ark showed the project of the floating city of Dogen, designed for the stay of 40,000 people.

ABC.AZ reports that 10,000 of them will be permanent residents, and the rest will be tourists.

The firm describes its “Dogen City” concept as a response to climate change and population growth. It hopes the idea will be pursued by a team drawn from industry, academia, and government.

The groundwork for the floating city is being laid at Hamamatsu City, a port about 200km southwest of Tokyo. Here N-Ark has worked with the city government, the Hamana Fisheries Cooperative Association, and construction group Shimizu to demonstrate floating technologies.

This will culminate in a “green ocean” demonstration machine, to be built in conjunction with the Lake Hamana Flower Expo in March next year.

The firm argues that the effect of climate change requires the development of the ocean as a new economic area. It says that to do this, it is necessary to create three industries: a “maritime city with functions to adapt to climate change”, a “constellation” of underwater data centres, and a tourism industry that “connects the space, the sea and the ground”.