Once a light station that marked the shoals off the coast of Southport, North Carolina, for ships, the two-story Frying Pan Shoals Light Station now houses a bed-and-breakfast perched on a platform 32 miles off the coast of Cape Fear.

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On the Babbage platform 55 miles off the east coast they produce enough gas in a day to fill the Olympic Stadium in London four times over.

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Located on the US west coast, an early use case for this platform is thought to be massive data processing and analytics.

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