Google's Floating Datahaven

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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nuke it from orbit?

[someone1234]

Excellent, there won't be collateral damage, should one of the governments want to get rid of it.

Re:Google & guns

[ultranova]

Not all lives are worth the same. Some should be wiped out. Those that spend their time harming others constantly and on purpose are worth nothing to me.

Presumably, those people also have some rationalization for why other people's lives are worth nothing to them. Which, of course, doesn't make it any less tempting to let them taste their own medicine. Still, I can't help but wonder if they too started with "assholes should be wiped out" and then gradually expanded the definition of "asshole" until it covered pretty much everyone ?

Not that this is relevant, since the grandparent poster was talking about human lives vs. property, not one human life vs. another.

Re:Google & guns

[igny]

Some people who do not value lives of any other person are worth nothing to me.