Google Patents Shipping-Container Data Centers

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday October 9, 2007 @04:43AM 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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Re:Oops! by Anonymous Coward · 2007-10-09 05:34 · Score: 0, Troll

copious amounts of sodium chloride recommended with this post

I bet you got up from your cubicle and rubbed one out in the bathroom after thinking up that "gem".

"Ohhhh now the geeks will finally accept me as one of their own!" corsec67 murmured as his closed fist pumped spastically up and down his fat sysadmin shaft. A rancid gobbet of semen blasted him in the eye, causing temporary blindness and insanity.

"Argh argh! I am a fucking pirate because it's COOL TO BE A PIRATE! That's what it says on Slashdot!" he screamed as he windmilled out of the bathroom. His coworkers watched the display in abject terror, certain that the morbidly obese sufferer of Asperger syndrome had finally snapped and was about to kill them all.