Datacenter Ahoy! - WatersTechnology.com

WatersTechnology Staff
29 Sep 2008

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This design takes the entire datacenter-in-a-box concept to the next level. As well as providing an integrated datacenter, this platform addresses the costly issues of real estate, power and cooling in simple, but ingenious ways. The basic concept is that datacenter-laden barges would be moored several kilometers off the coast and connected to the mainland network via networking cables.

By floating datacenters out in the ocean, Google would save a bundle in property taxes since they could sit

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