International waters, immune to NSA? Also, does wave power really yield sufficient energy?
Much more likely it belongs to the NSA.
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?
#232How 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.
Maybe something like the Canon Canobeam DT-130 Type SFP: http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/professional/products/free_spa...
But, you know, more than one... or something.
Re: Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay?
#233Today we went sailing. I took ~62 higher res jpg pictures of this area.
You can see these here: http://tinyurl.com/floatingcontainers
Re: Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay?
#234Today we went sailing. I took ~62 higher res jpg pictures of this area. You can see these here: http://tinyurl.com/floatingcontainers
Awesome Initiative!!!
Re: Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay?
#235This will get lost in the rest of the comments here, and the article was comprehensive, but:
A friend of mine just got back from Treasure Island (she works as a stewardess on millionaires boats), and hung out with a lot of the guys working on this. This is definitely Google's doing, and she was told that it is indeed a data-centre, but that's all the info she got.
Re: Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay?
#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or you could just shift the processes to a newly commissioned, and therefore cheaper per cpu/ram/storage per dollar!
A completely new data center takes years to build and deploy.
Sure, but so will finding an appropriate cable landing site, getting a mini-substation built near that landing site, etc.
Cable landing is a hard problem.
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#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
I suspect the name may just be to confuse anyone trying to look into it. "By and Large" returns over 250 million results in Google. Anyone looking to find permits, job postings, or random government filings would need to dig through tons of unrelated cruft. This is done pretty often for shell companies, they will have names like "Twisting River" or just "Investment Vehicle VII, LLC"
If you want to throw people off the beaten path (and you have google's money) it would be trivial to acquire a small company or even create one from scratch that actually does something, anything rather than give a name which is sure to scream "shell company" and get people's sniffers out. They could have probably found a way to take even the name that was similar to an overseas company that has a connection to shipp…
> it would be trivial to acquire a small company or even create one from scratch that actually does something
It's clear they are optimizing for fun.
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#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
FYI, "Buy N Large" was the fictional Costco-like store from Pixar's WALL-E.
Noting that the domain byandlarge.com was registered in 1998 by a "domainer". Interesting. The movie came out in 2008. But the film concept dates to the mid 90's so most likely that concept was the first use of that name. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WALL-E
Except in the movie it is Buy not By...
Re: Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay?
#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
Its being built at an island in SF Bay. That doesn't mean its going to be operated there.
Would servers be affected by the instability of the ocean? That is, if they use spinning drives, would the heave and ho of the ocean affect it? Would that affect other electronics and components?
This would be far from the first time electronics were put on a boat.
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#240Reminds me [1]. Gmail like AI breaks loose and uses fully automated floating data centers. Highly recommend. [1] book named "Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears:
That sounds like the game "Endgame:Singularity": http://www.emhsoft.com/singularity/