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Servers Ahoy — Startup To Build Floating Data Centers
1sockchuck writes "Startup International Data Security says it is moving ahead with plans to build data centers on cargo ships docked in the San Francisco Bay. IDS first announced its plans in 2008, but they were postponed by the credit crunch. The company says it has now lined up funding and an anchor tenant for a proof-of-concept 'dataship' that will hold 500 racks of servers in its cargo holds. IDS isn't alone in contemplating ship-board server farms, as Google has applied for a patent for a 'water-based data center.'"
Wonder if data sinks will have to be prohibited?
--- Users are like bacteria -> Each one causing a thousand tiny crises until the host finally gives up and dies.
Nah, they'll listen to Reason.
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
You always do when you program in sea.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a cargo ship full of servers, hurling through the Pacific ocean...
Kid-proof tablet..
You always do when you program in sea.
Great, now HR is going to require "20 years experience with sea, sea++, and also sea+" on all our resumes.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
i'm already carrying a terabyte around in my pocket.
Are you sure you're not just happy to see us?
I think the wire sharks will do more damage.
"Even a 100 ft rouge wave (which would be completely unheard of in a harbor) would have trouble significantly damaging one of them."
It's the ones with eye shadow that you have to worry about.
A.
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Sea-sharp took down the Itanic.
Table-ized A.I.