Google Planning Offshore Data Barges

[...] on Data Center Knowledge there is a nice article detailing Google’s plans for datacenters floating out at sea.   The speculation is based on a patent for a water-based datacenter that Google just filed in [...]

[...] in related news, Google is evidently planning offshore data barges, to avoid property taxes and keep hard-workin’ servers cool with the power of the ocean. (via [...]

[...] pilot found this at datacenterknowledge.com from Del.icio.us . 6 Sep 08. 'Google has filed a patent for a “water-based data center” [...]

CG Fridh

Posted September 7th, 2008

Have flooting datacenter that will realy help. I thinking on Gustav,Hanna and more will come. The technic is old but the idee to reduce he power must be done with more clever software. Look at Munax and the first product
http://www.playaudiovideo.com, 3 Billion pages indexed on 75 computers. With 2000 computers they will make 20 Billion pages and Google has 8 Billion.

[...] a press release from GeoEye about the launch, also released this afternoon. And in related news, Google is evidently planning offshore data barges, to avoid property taxes and keep hard-workin’ servers cool with the power of the ocean. (via [...]

Tola

Posted September 7th, 2008

The word Piracy will soon revert back to the old meaning.

Ian

Posted September 7th, 2008

Hey cool, what can possibly go wrong?

Hopetta

Posted September 8th, 2008

Maybe the present has finally, unwittingly, caught up with the “future” we saw in sci-fi? The gigantic data center that resides on spaceships and in villains’ lairs is one of the only bits of futurama that hasn’t been lusted after by humanity until now, well, except of course our very own military. Granted, the processing power of those old sets is contained in our desktops, if not our cell phones, but I’m glad someone is finally thinking of building a semi-industrial, hi-tech, electrically charged superdatacenter worth blowing up in James Bond style.

[...] to be situated three to five miles from the coast: your infos. The company has scored a patent for floating data centers that can generate their own power and rely on the constant water temperatures to cool hot [...]

[...] The patent outlines a concept that would not only be savvy engineering, but deliver great returns. Rich Miller at Data Center Knowledge called Google’s patent a “startling new take on data center engineering.” [...]

[...] Miller at Data Center Knowledge said the Google plan could invoke different legal definitions of territory [...]

[...] Miller at Data Center Knowledge said the Google plan could invoke different legal definitions of territory [...]

[...] Google’s development of “crane-removable modules,” a container-based data center, writes Rich Miller on Data Center [...]

[...] leaderboard has gained the site a lot of attention. But does it really matter?Google Planning Offshore Data BargesIn a startling new take on data center engineering, Google has filed a patent for a “water-based [...]

[...] otro lado, Google también contempla la construcción de barcazas en alta mar para el almacenamiento de datos (centros de datos “acuosos”) que utilizarán el movimiento del óceano para crear [...]

Bill Batt

Posted September 15th, 2008

Those of us who subscribe to the school of economic thought growing from the philosophy of Henry George realize it makes no sense to tax the equipment that Google has invested in, regardless where it is located. Doing so imposes a deadweight on the economy that hurts us all. Instead we should put a tax solely on natural resources which yield “rents,” which really have value due to their recognition of their common market value. Computer power has give us the facility to demonstrate that taxing what George called “land” is the perfect tax — comporting ideally with all the principles of sound tax theory. See wealthandwant.com, and henrygeorge.org and other links for more info.

[...] understand computers and computing. It’s a ramp-up to their doctrine of cloud computing, with off-shore floating data-centres and high-speed internet *everywhere*. It’s the beginning of everything that everyone else has [...]

[...] plans for a data center driven by tidal power closely resemble elements of Google’s proposed floating data barges that use the ocean for power and cooling. .. [...]

[...] stuff. fortunately (or even more scary?) google is researching offshore floating data centers that will use the wave motion of the seas to power their servers. Google has filed a patent for a [...]

[...] http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/09/06/google-planning-offshore-data-barges/ [...]

[...] Full Article [...]

[...] in building alternatives to the traditional data center. Google has filed for a patent of its floating data center. Intel is running a proof-of-concept data center using outside air. Now, we learn that Microsoft [...]

[...] “The floating data centers would be located 3 to 7 miles from shore, in 50 to 70 meters of wat… AKPC_IDS += “1389,”;Popularity: unranked [...]

[...] experiment is a clever, yet incredibly simple idea. It’s about as far away from Google’s alleged experiments with data centers on the ocean that we read about last year as one can get. Feeding off the rock walls around it for [...]

[...] flows. Two Scottish server farms show us how this is done. Google even filed a patent for “water-based data centers.” The idea here is that offshore data barges will use the ocean to power and cool their [...]

[...] [3. Data Center Knowledge: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/09/06/google-planning-offsho...] [...]

Fahim

Posted March 23rd, 2011

Great! Now, if we are missing search result…then google can always blame it on the Shark…”Shark ate your data!”

[...] plans to build datacenters at sea that used tidal/gravitatinal energy and be self-sustaining: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/09/06/google-planning-offshore-data-barges/.  This was also about the time that PUE was coming on the scene and helping to focus the [...]