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Google Patents Shipping-Container Data Centers

Posted by Zonk on from the pick-it-up-and-move-it-out dept.

theodp writes "Two years ago, Robert X. Cringely wrote that Google was experimenting with portable data centers built in standard shipping containers. The idea, Cringely explained, wasn't new and wasn't even Google's, backing up his claim with a link to an Internet-Archive-in-a-Shipping-Container presentation (PDF, dated 11-8-2003) that was reportedly pitched to Larry Page. Google filed for a patent on essentially the same concept on 12-30-2003. And on Tuesday, the USPTO issued the search giant a patent for Modular Data Centers housed in shipping containers, which Google curiously notes facilitate 'rapid and easy relocation to another site depending on changing economic factors'. That's a statement that may make those tax-abating NC officials a tad uneasy."

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  1. Well then... by goldspider · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...under what part of "Do no evil." does this fall?

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    "Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
  2. What?! by valkabo · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    How dare they!!

    What happened to do no evil! THOSE LIARS! I trusted them.. they said they would always love me and never treat me wrong..

    What? Oh.. there a company? And this is a sure-fire way to make money in corporate america now? Intresting..

  3. Re:Oops! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    How is that a troll? You "mods" are fucking idiot losers who probably saw too much truth in that post.