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."

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[an.echte.trilingue]

Because they once tried to buy the island-nation of Sealand to have a place free of legal authorities from which to operate. They could not raise enough money, or it was just a publicity stunt; who knows. Buying an off-shore data center seems like the next logical step to me (I know that these are not really off shore in the legal sense. It was a joke). You can read about it here.