Servers at Sea: Google Ships Could ...

readwriteweb - A Google patent application filed two years ago but published this fall is getting some new attention because it's just too interesting to ignore. The patent (link) is for putting data centers on ships at sea and harvesting the energy in waves for power.

The biggest benefit for the company, though, could come from changed legal and tax status by placing the ships outside of national jurisdiction. It's a thought both fascinating and frightening, although it also may end up as just another crazy patent filed for the sake of filing it.

Called a Water-Based Data Center, the idea was written up by the UK's Times Online today with slightly misleading verbiage like the following:

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