Google Planning Offshore Data!!!!!!!

by **J The Kidd** Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:40 pm

Google's Floating Data Centers to Store All Your Info Out at Sea....

While political candidates and their veeps debate the virtues and woes
of off-shore drilling, search monolith Google is pondering another
source of wealth able 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 CPUs.

Google's potential centers would rely on the motion of the ocean to
generate electricity, using Pelamis Wave Energy Converters (pictured
above), devices that generate electricity as sections of the units are
pushed up and down. The systems would tie directly into underwater high
speed optical cables for connectivity, meaning they'd be quite
self-sufficient.

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