The Google Navy

Status
Not open for further replies.
iMav

iMav

The Devil's Advocate
Slashdot said:
Is Google preparing to launch its own Navy? In its just-published application for a patent on the Water-Based Data Center, Google envisions a world where 'computing centers are located on a ship or ships, which are then anchored in a water body from which energy from natural motion of the water may be captured, and turned into electricity and/or pumping power for cooling pumps to carry heat away from computers in the data center.' And you thought The Onion was joking when it reported on Google's Fleet of Naval Warships!
Click to expand...

Source
 
C

chandru.in

In the zone
Hmmm... Interesting piece of technology and a sensible patent application for once. :lol:

Hope they release it for the world to use at a moderate licensing fee (of course only after they have covered the R&D costs for it). That way we can have a new source of energy for power hungry data centers. :)
 
C

chandru.in

In the zone
Gigacore said:
what money can't do ?
Click to expand...
Research of this caliber needs more than just money. It needs few brain cells to think and take on a really uncertain challenge.

Hope you have read the kind of patents certain tech giants obtain. Those are examples of achievements with just money, not this. ;)
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top