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September 15, 2008
Data center barges on the sea
Last February, we posted about Bill Weihl, Google's green energy czar, and Google's RE<C energy strategy.
RE<C stands for Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal, and is Google's
strategy to produce 1 gigawatt of energy capacity through renewable
sources like solar, wind and geothermal, to power its data centers.
Two weeks ago, Google filed a patent to house data centers on barges at sea. The idea is to use waves to power the data centers, ocean water to cool them, and a moored distance or seven miles or more to avoid paying taxes. Google concedes the idea is one of many and may not be pursued but they get a lot of credit for thinking differently about the challenges facing data centers.
Read more on the TimesOnline and DataCenterKnowledge.com.
Picture credit to TimesOnline.
| by Will Runyon | September 15, 2008 Permalink |
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