It's bad enough that the benthic ecosystem has been damaged by converting into and industrial park for wind turbines.

It's all an Ayn Randian wet dream, literally in this case.

We simply do not need more floating debris in our oceans, including spallated polymers from wind turbine blades, floating fragments of solar cells smashed by high seas and now this.

Isn't there enough garbage floating in the ocean already?

At first blush, it looks quite similar to Panthalassa’s design, but this design is much more mechanical. It also depends on being tied to the ocean floor.

Sadly, Panthalassa is backed by Peter Thiel who wants to use their buoys for (what else?) powering data centers.

Damn it! Our first priority needs to be replacing fossil fuel plants with clean power sources (Solar, Wind, Wave, Geothermal, Nuclear fission, Nuclear fusion.) After we have secured our continued survival, we can think about AI.