NVIDIA has published a corporate blog featuring Eco Wave Power's wave-to-electricity technology powered by NVIDIA AI inf

Eco Wave Power, a member of NVIDIA's Inception startup program's Sustainable Futures initiative, is developing wave energy technology that converts ocean waves into clean electricity using existing marine infrastructure such as breakwaters and sea walls. According to the Energy Information Administration, wave energy could produce over 60% of annual energy consumption in the U.S. alone.

The company's approach uses noninvasive floating infrastructure attached to coastal structures to capture wave energy. Because seawater is roughly 800 times denser than air, the devices can generate larger amounts of energy using much smaller equipment than wind turbines. Critically, Eco Wave Power keeps its computers, sensors, hydraulic conversion and electrical components on land at centers rather than on the floaters themselves, preventing damage during rough currents and keeping expensive hardware safe from storms. Previous companies faced bottlenecks at the power management stage by housing their computer hardware in the floaters.

CEO Inna Braverman emphasized that wave energy is the least intermittent renewable energy source compared to solar and wind, which are affected by night, winter, cloud coverage and pollution. "Wave energy is one of the largest renewable energy sources that exists," Braverman said. "Everybody wants it, but nobody can do it, so I looked at the current problems with harnessing wave power and I asked: How do we simplify it?"

Eco Wave Power uses NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and accelerated computing to build digital twins of wave patterns and floating infrastructure. These virtual environments simulate wave conditions, structural behavior, deployment configurations and operational scenarios before physical installation, optimizing engineering decisions and reducing deployment risk. Real-time operational optimization uses NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI to enable predictive analytics, anomaly detection, environmental forecasting and predictive maintenance, continuously analyzing ocean conditions and equipment performance to improve efficiency.

The company operates projects in Jaffa Port, Israel, developed with EDF Power Solutions and the Israeli Energy Ministry, and in the Port of Los Angeles, created with AltaSea and Shell. Additional projects are in development in Portugal at the Port of Leixões, Suao Port in Taiwan, and Mumbai, India with Bharat Petroleum. Pilots are already underway at the Port of Los Angeles to demonstrate how wave energy can serve as the sole power source for a data center without connecting to the existing grid. AI software serves as the control layer, planning compute tasks based on available power supply and predicting wave strength throughout the week to allocate intensive workloads accordingly.

Braverman noted that many data centers are relocating to coastal ports for cooling and water access, creating an opportunity to link AI factories directly to wave energy. "We exist, we work, we're grid connected and we have so much of this resource," she said. "The energy is needed now, so I think we're in the right place at the right time and we're innovative, but we're not futuristic, and that's what sets us apart."