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Google's in the final stages of building a four-story tall data center on a ship in San Francisco Bay that will be not only cooled, but also powered, renewably, by the ocean. An investigative report by CNET left little doubt that the secretive project is the work of Google: http://cnet.co/1ajG92h Subscribe to The Daily Conversation http://bit.ly/WZnLnd Join the conversation on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/thedailyconversation Add TDC to your circles on Google+ https://plus.google.com/100134925804523235350/posts Follow The Daily Conversation on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/thedailyconvo Video credits: Google Data Center: http://youtube.com/watch?v=avP5d16wEp0 Container ship: http://youtube.com/watch?v=nEm8SSb2fPI Fiber: http://youtube.com/watch?v=A9v11qJTG8o Driverless Car: http://youtube.com/watch?v=cdgQpa1pUUE Google is in the final stages of building a four-story tall data center on a ship in San Francisco Bay that will be not only cooled, but also powered, renewably, by the ocean. An investigative report by CNET left little doubt that the secretive project is the work of Google, who has set the project up under the name "By And Large" -- a play on the By N Large corporation in the Pixar film Wall-E. A patent Google filed in 2008 laid out plans for a data center on a barge that is continuously powered by ocean currents, using sea water to cool the servers. This is yet another way Google is leading the world to a better place, because the electricity dedicated to powering America's growing need for data centers is approaching 2% of total domestic energy usage. Not only is this a good move for the environment, but it will allow Google the flexibility to move its data centers wherever they are needed without breaking them down or building new ones from the ground up. It seems the Buy n Large analogy is becoming truer by the day, what with Google already dominating the internet business, poised to take over the infrastructure of the internet - with fiber, and on the cusp of revolutionizing modern transportation as we know it through its driverless car technology. Oh yeah, and it's stock value just crossed the elite $1,000-a-share threshold. , Google,Data Center,Server,Internet,Fiber,Driverless Car,Technology,Science,Ship,Floating,Floating Data Center,Ocean,San Francisco,San Francisco Bay,Invention,Software,Google Search (Website),Boat,Company,Cool,Inspiring,Sergey Brin (Billionaire),Larry Page (Billionaire),Business,Google Fiber (Project),Project,Secret,CNET,Vlog,Commentary,News,Bryce,energy,renewable,power,electricity,Global,Warming,Climate,Change,Solar,Green,Solar Energy (Industry),Wind Power (Industry),Car
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jok
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one day this storage data center will be huge until google can make a cybernet-country as like what we seen on the film
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Google is in the final stages of building a four-story tall data center on a ship in San Francisco Bay that will be not only cooled, but also powered, renewably, by the ocean. An investigative report by CNET left little doubt that the secretive project is the work of Google, who has set the project up under the name "By And Large" -- a play on the By N Large corporation in the Pixar film Wall-E. A patent Google filed in 2008 laid out plans for a data center on a barge that is continuously powered by ocean currents, using sea water to cool the servers. This is yet another way Google is leading the world to a better place, because the electricity dedicated to powering America's growing need for data centers is approaching WarpCabability ..Momentarily..WaitingFor Beer toFuelTheTanks..
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Damn. That's a shame they sold them due to fire regulations.
http://valleywag.gawker.com/google-killed-their-mystery-barge-because-it-was-a-floa-1656007631 -
this is great but damn he's such a tool. This boast-vid in years to come will seem funny then.. when mega data centers will not be needed anymore.
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If it will work forever, how will the sea work forever without evaporating?
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How are those google shares going?
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If every data center was cooled directly by the oceans, then eventually we would raise the temps of the oceans. Not good.
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googol is cool
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Bad idea: Boat sinks
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You mean - those crazy advertising people
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Hurry up and buy all the land from Comcast and AT&T, google. Bring in the Google Fiber.
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Man i wish i would have bought stock when it was first offered.
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They got rid of these barges last year.
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sea water is corosive as fuck...i do not think they use it to cool the servers
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Google it was amazing for everyone to using and preparing of the searching from data centers. in and in the subject school university.
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too bad google sold those boats.
how stupid u feelin now? :P -
Titanic - digital edition
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I wouldn't say that Google is the leader with the internet infrastructure as AT&T is giving them a run for their money. ATT is also in the race for delivering fiber optic internet on their already existing infrastructure in both Texas and Kansas from what I know. Google is about 35% complete in Kansas but still has a long way to go to catch up with ATT.
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...someone has been drinking the KoolAde