http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/ Engadget Comments for Google patent application reveals plans for floating data centers http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/Sep 8th 2008 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/Sep 8th 2008 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand]]>Sep 8th 2008 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/Sep 8th 2008 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/Moe: Sorry, 2 p.m. Or you can steal a boat and sail out to international waters, heh.
Homer: What's that, a theme park?

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/BABF08
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"I have to clean the barnacles off server 6 again."]]>Sep 8th 2008 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/Sep 8th 2008 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/
Why wait for increased atmospheric temperatures to melt the polar ice caps when we can have millions of servers speed it along?
]]>Sep 8th 2008 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/Of course you cannot count on people being logical about the environment, or anything else for that matter.
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they probably will set this data center up on the mexico gulf area to take advantage of the stormy weather as well.. hmmmmmm]]>Sep 8th 2008 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/Sep 8th 2008 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/Sep 8th 2008 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/Sep 8th 2008 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/Sep 8th 2008 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/Sep 8th 2008 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/Sep 8th 2008 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/Sep 8th 2008 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/Sep 8th 2008 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/
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There are calmer swaths of ocean to put one in, but then wave power becomes less of an option, as does cooling. Generally, cold dynamic water equals squalls that will take out the boat or damage the wave power system. With so many factors anchoring the site in one location, it seems pointless to float it at all. you might as well find some rocky coastline in Alaska or Canada and blast something into the cliff face.

Well, it is a big ocean - I'm sure these things come together efficiently somewhere.]]>Sep 8th 2008 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/Sep 8th 2008 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/Sep 8th 2008 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/
And then eventually, we'll have cruise ships with huge satellite dishes latching on to it.

And then we'll have hundreds of refugee boats latching on. And then Google will have the largest floating datacenter and multimedia communications event in the world.

/and then someone will hopefully get the reference.]]>Sep 8th 2008 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/Sep 9th 2008 1:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/Willy!
Johnson!
Hot dog! Fresh hot dogs for sale!
Two balls, one strike!]]>Sep 8th 2008 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/Sep 8th 2008 7:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/google-patent-application-reveals-plans-for-floating-data-center/
And not to say for maintenance a machine, a single "check the power supply of the node xxxx" can become a very risky task.



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