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Re:Inside Facebook’s Oregon data center by ChuckMcM on Saturday August 18, 2012 @11:31PM (#4403128)
Way ahead of you :-) I made up some plans for a 'pocket' data center (think pocket battleship). In the past such things have been infeasible because the scale was needed to achieve the economics, but advances in energy deployment and network design have created an opportunity here. Now we just need $25M to build one :-)
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Re:Inside Facebook’s Oregon data center by orangethirty on Sunday August 19, 2012 @07:35AM (#4403786)
Given how Instagram is "valued" at one billion dollars (was it two?) I don't see how you would have much trouble raising twenty five million for something as game changing as that. Your pocket data center sure opens up a lot of possibilities. A cell phone datacenter. Well, sort of like a high powered botnet built around cell phones.

You get funding, I board a plane to wherever you build this, and help you hack it. :)

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