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Google's Floating Datahaven

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the don't-spring-a-leak dept.

PDG writes "Google has pending plans to take its data centers off-shore, literally. By moving their data centers to floating barges in international waters, they are able to save money on taxes and electricity (using wave based power) as well as reside their operations outside the jurisdiction of governments. There is mention of hurricane and other caveats, but I wonder how they plan to get a bandwidth pipe large enough and still be reliable. Seems like a chapter out of a Neal Stephenson novel." You might recall earlier discussions on the same subject.

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  1. Re:In other news... by BitterOldGUy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announces a multi-billion dollar investment in a fleet of submarines.

    You kid, but wait till Google has some shit that China, Iran, or even the US doesn't like. Or Greenpeace or some other aggressive group doesn't like.

    Accidents do happen at sea!

  2. Re:Google & guns by Xaositecte · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Lol wut?

    What is morally ambiguous about shooting people who are threatening to shoot you?

    Not as some kind of bizarre Iraq war metaphor, I mean if someone breaks into your house, or your place of employment, and threatens you with a gun.

    You also have a gun, so you shoot them. This is not a difficult moral dilemma.