Is Google Building a Floating Data Center In San Francisco Bay?

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 26, 2013 @07:23AM from the walk-to-shore-and-scream-your-search-queries-at-it dept.

snydeq writes "CNET's Daniel Terdiman investigates an oversize secret project Google is constructing on San Francisco's Treasure Island, which according to one expert may be a sea-faring data center. 'Something big and mysterious is rising from a floating barge at the end of Treasure Island, a former Navy base in the middle of San Francisco Bay. And Google's fingerprints are all over it,' Terdiman writes. 'Whether the structure is in fact a floating data center is hard to say for sure, of course, since Google's not talking. But Google, understandably, has a history of putting data centers in places with cheap cooling, as well as undertaking odd and unexpected projects like trying to bring Internet access to developing nations via balloons and blimps.'"

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Re:"Secret" by jo_ham · 2013-10-26 07:47 · Score: 5, Insightful

Why use the seawater as your working fluid?
Just make a closed cycle and put a heat exchanger down there. No need for the seawater to be exposed to anything except the exterior radiators.