81–90 of 250 posts
How 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.
1000 4G dongles could pull down 1 Tbps and the signals run well over several miles of water.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Submit it to USPTO and other national or trans-national (e.g. EU) patent registries like any other patent. This one's included in the article: https://www.google.com/patents/US7525207
Satire aside. My point was the ridiculousness of it. What's next, patents covering putting data centers in space, under the sea or under stairs etc..
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Submit it to USPTO and other national or trans-national (e.g. EU) patent registries like any other patent. This one's included in the article: https://www.google.com/patents/US7525207
Satire aside. My point was the ridiculousness of it. What's next, patents covering putting data centers in space, under the sea or under stairs etc..
Can somebody explain the point behind the secrecy? What does Google have to gain by taking all these steps to hide they're the ones building it?
Perhaps also for legal reasons. For example larger companies use shell companies for purposes of reduced liability.
So it appears as though Google is looking towards a future where they are an independent country, or at the very least free from regulation, visa-a-vis Seasteading. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading
> putting data centers inside shipping containers is already a well-established practice. Is this true? Does anyone know why? The article seems to assume it without saying why.
I'll try to find the link in a moment, but Microsoft was doing something like this 5+ years back. The premise was similar to Google using commodity hardware in their datacenters. Throw together "compute blocks", set them all up and when performance degrades sufficiently you remove the container and install a new one in its place. EDIT: Also, I'm surprised I got the time right, for some reason 2005-2012 is one big blu…
Satellite View: http://goo.gl/maps/2pX5u (Note the transformer farm right across the tollway)
Containers being loaded: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt5ROTu6ceM
Earlier quoted context omitted.
FYI, "Buy N Large" was the fictional Costco-like store from Pixar's WALL-E.
I kind of doubt that these two names are related except that they both derive from the same common idiom.
The nautical double-entendre that ZeroGravitas mentions only sweetens the deal.
> putting data centers inside shipping containers is already a well-established practice. Is this true? Does anyone know why? The article seems to assume it without saying why.
I'll try to find the link in a moment, but Microsoft was doing something like this 5+ years back. The premise was similar to Google using commodity hardware in their datacenters. Throw together "compute blocks", set them all up and when performance degrades sufficiently you remove the container and install a new one in its place. EDIT: Also, I'm surprised I got the time right, for some reason 2005-2012 is one big blu…
I think that's the same one the datacenterknowledge.com article I linked refers to though.
Due to speed-of-light delays, some of the ideal locations for hosting high-speed trading arbitrages are in the middle of the ocean. Being half way between two exchanges would allow you to notice a small difference in price of some commodity in two different exchanges and buy and sell microseconds before your competitors on the mainland know that there's an arbitrage opportunity. See http://www.physicscentral.com/explore/action/stocktrade.cfm