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Google to Launch Computer Navy

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Mountain View : CA : USA | about 1 year ago  
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Following its dominance of the Internet, Google has now announced plans to open its first sea base! It plans to anchor sea barges about seven miles (or eleven kilometers) offshore and house its supercomputers on them.

While the measure may appear a bit left field, there is hard business sense driving it. By 2005, a whopping 1% of the Globe's electricity was consumed by data centers. On its barges, Google plans to generate energy from waves -- which is not only cheaper but also Green. By 2020, the carbon footprint of the computers that make the Interent run is projected to overtake that of jet airlines, the current Carbon bogeymen. Also all those property taxes in places like Britain add up. The "Offshore Rigs" will be exempt from such taxes.

Google has been forced to take some belt-tightening measures over the last couple of months following stagnating ad revenue. Some employee perks were taken away recently as well.

But Google is by no means unique in such out of the box thinking. In order to defray the main recurring cost component of data centers -- energy consumption for cooling -- Microsoft is considering building a data center in Siberia while Sun Microsystems is considering a naturally water cooled underground coal mine.

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