Google uses Treasure Island for holiday parties, perhaps that's what explains the presence of employees?
Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay?
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Re: Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay?
#12How does the data get to/from the platform? Microwaves? Can that work from a slightly moving platform?
My wacky guess would have been off-shore offices for employees that can't get H1Bs.
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#13Very interesting... Any chance that this will mean the Govt can't subpoena data from this data center if it is floating far enough from the US coast? Or does it not matter because clearly the US will be the closest harbor?
In international waters, it matters more which flag your ship is sailing under than which port is closest.
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#14There are actually 4 "vessels". Look at the names -- using binary :)
BAL0001 BY AND LARGE LLC * * C & C MARINE & REPAIR LLC 2010 Freight Barge 2164.0 249.6
BAL0010 BY AND LARGE LLC * * C & C MARINE 2011 Passenger Barge (Inspected) 2520.0 260.1
BAL0011 BY AND LARGE LLC * * C & C MARINE 2011 Passenger Barge (Inspected) 2520.0 260.1
BAL0100 BY AND LARGE LLC * * C & C MARINE 2012 Freight Barge 2164.0 249.6Re: Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay?
#15Very interesting... Any chance that this will mean the Govt can't subpoena data from this data center if it is floating far enough from the US coast? Or does it not matter because clearly the US will be the closest harbor?
On international waters you follow the laws of the country where the ship is registered.
So, most likely Liberian or Panamanian law...
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#16another cool thing about floating data centers in california is they're pretty much earthquake proof... built in shock absorbers (aka water).
You can probably charge a premium for easily accessible highly secure data I would imagine.
... assuming megalodon isn't still around
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#18I was Googling to find what a boat-based wave-powered generator would look like, and I found this interesting diagram: http://www.greenpatentblog.com/2011/12/08/fraunhofers-mobile...
That seems... very inefficient. But I don't know enough to argue it.
Re: Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay?
#19There are actually 4 "vessels". Look at the names -- using binary :) BAL0001 BY AND LARGE LLC * * C & C MARINE & REPAIR LLC 2010 Freight Barge 2164.0 249.6 BAL0010 BY AND LARGE LLC * * C & C MARINE 2011 Passenger Barge (Inspected) 2520.0 260.1 BAL0011 BY AND LARGE LLC * * C & C MARINE 2011 Passenger Barge (Inspected) 2520.0 260.1 BAL0100 BY AND LARGE LLC * * C & C MARINE 2012 Freight Barge 2164.0 249.6
FYI, "Buy N Large" was the fictional Costco-like store from Pixar's WALL-E.
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#20Great article. It's nice to see journalists do actual investigative work, even if it is for something like this. Today's "journalism" seems to be all link-bait opinion pieces mixed in with copy-pastes from twitter.