Google's Floating Datacenters (Think Oil Rigs)

Re:Google's Floating Datacenters (Think Oil Rigs) by danielrhodes on Monday September 08, 2008 @02:04PM (#298587)

I wonder if they plan to abandon the use of cheap commodity servers for these data centers since the cost of replacing a malfunctioning server becomes much higher.

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Re:Google's Floating Datacenters (Think Oil Rigs) by hugh on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @12:17AM (#299085)

Not really that much higher.

It's not like they'd ship a new one out from the mainland every time one failed -- they'd have a huge stack of spares sitting around on the rig and replenish it every now and then.

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Re:Google's Floating Datacenters (Think Oil Rigs) by jmtulloss on Monday September 08, 2008 @02:25PM (#298616)

I wonder if it is that much higher. Oil rigs are a long way offshore since that's where the oil is. These just can't hit the bottom, and closer tends to be better. Less cable, easier access, etc.

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