Google's Floating Datacenters (Think Oil Rigs)

Re:Google's Floating Datacenters (Think Oil Rigs) by andreyf on Monday September 08, 2008 @01:36PM (#298557)

I love how there is something practical about building floating data centers, as if the coolness factor wasn't enough.

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Re:Google's Floating Datacenters (Think Oil Rigs) by biohacker42 on Monday September 08, 2008 @02:59PM (#298659)

I wonder how much of the practicality is land/electricity costs and how much is regulation/taxes flight?

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Re:Google's Floating Datacenters (Think Oil Rigs) by greyman on Monday September 08, 2008 @03:25PM (#298694)

The later could be considered as "practicality" as well.

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Re:Google's Floating Datacenters (Think Oil Rigs) by biohacker42 on Monday September 08, 2008 @04:08PM (#298739)

Absolutely, but I bet it won't be long before the government tries to tax offshore data centers as well.

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Re:Google's Floating Datacenters (Think Oil Rigs) by lief79 on Monday September 08, 2008 @05:49PM (#298830)

They'd have to treat them the same as oil rigs, at least in theory.

Wow, I've never seen a scenario where I pictured google on the same side as oil lobbyists.

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