Google search finds seafaring solution - Times Online
Data Centers are VERY costly and not very green. They use a tremendous amount of electricity to keep the systems running and more importantly, to keep them cool. Google is apparently looking at some very innovative approaches to solving this issue...
Move the DCs offshore... no, not to India or Malaysia... (though it could happen there too) but off the shore line about 11KM. They would use the motion of the water and heat from support ships to generate power and cooling for the DCs. Very clever - I don't know what the operating costs of such a setup would be but it is certainly looking at the problem from a very different angle!
W00T GooG!
-ZB
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
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