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Startup Building Floating Data Centers
1sockchuck writes "A Bay Area startup is planning to build data centers on cargo container ships, which would be docked at piers in major Internet markets. The company, known as IDS (International Data Security) says it plans to use biodiesel to power its generators and use heat from equipment to manage temperature on board the ships, reducing their reliance on grid power. IDS is telling prospects that it hopes to eventually have more than 20 floating data centers docked at ports around the U.S."
I bet you could sell server space on one of these to thepiratebay...
weirdest thing I ever saw: scientology advertising on slashdot.
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"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." -Albert Einstein
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a server farm under tow!
(latency's a bitch, though)
You sunk my dataship!
They can still use pier to pier connections.
...programming in Sea+
We need a new rating, Whoosh, for humorless droids who feel the need to correct jokes.
Infuriate left and right
I cried real tears when Li Mu Bai died.