Google was granted a patent in 2009 for a floating data center
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?
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think wave power is deployed successfully yet[1]. The cooling would not be a leap of technology though. [1] Its under development http://www.pelamiswave.com/ but I don't think its finished yet.
Yeah, that's why I was trying to figure out how they would power it. Diesel generators seem... unGoogley.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_thermal_energy_conversion
Not enough depth in the Bay for OTEC, though. (You need a bigger temperature gradient)
Re: Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay?
#123I 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...
There are some current wave-powered generators (such as http://www.oceanpowertechnologies.com/) - but mainly focused on (networks of) smaller buoys
Re: Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay?
#124It's startup/incubator space: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/off/4148978964.html
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Re: Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay?
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
I kind of doubt that these two names are related except that they both derive from the same common idiom.
Also "by and large" is a nautical term meaning (roughly) "whether sailing against the wind or sailing with the wind".
Interesting to interpret in that context. Maybe a data center intended to work best exactly when other centers would be experiencing losses in connectivity?
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or you can be sneaky. Put out some irresistable, yet covert job offers for pirates in the necessary ports, and see where the applications come from.
Or put a "Report a Pirate" bounty and crowdsource it.
but how do you confirm the validity of the reports
Re: Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay?
#127Great 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.
They shoulda searched craigslist: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/off/4148978964.html
That's really interesting. The article claimed the Google structure wasn't likely to be office-space, because there was little-to-no exterior-facing lighting, though. This project seems to have a lot of windows. Not the same thing?
Re: Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay?
#128Re: Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay?
#129Very 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?
It's the other way around: The whole block is the subponea treatment unit of Google. It's offshore so it's not under US jurisdiction.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
They shoulda searched craigslist: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/off/4148978964.html
That's really interesting. The article claimed the Google structure wasn't likely to be office-space, because there was little-to-no exterior-facing lighting, though. This project seems to have a lot of windows. Not the same thing?
Not the same thing: http://www.sharedesk.net/spaces/view/2132/treasure-island-tr...