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Google's Floating Data Centers to Store All Your Info Out at Sea

by Tim Stevens on September 8, 2008 at 11:02 AM

Google Nabs Patent for Off-Shore Data Centers

While political candidates and their veeps debate the virtues and woes of off-shore drilling, search monolith Google is pondering another source of wealth able to be situated three to five miles from the coast: your infos. The company has scored a patent for floating data centers that can generate their own power and rely on the constant water temperatures to cool hot CPUs.

Google's potential centers would rely on the motion of the ocean to generate electricity, using Pelamis Wave Energy Converters (pictured above), snake-like devices that generate electricity as sections of the units are pushed up and down. The systems would tie directly into underwater high speed optical cables for connectivity, meaning they'd be quite self-sufficient.

The whole idea may sound a bit far-fetched, but if Google is going to keep giving away storage for cheap or free, it's going to run out of land eventually. [From: Data Center Knowledge]

Tags: breaking news, BreakingNews, data center, DataCenter, google, off-shore, pelamis wave energy, PelamisWaveEnergy

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