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Comments: 1 +-   Google Patents Shipping-Container Data Centers on Tuesday October 09 2007, @02:59AM theodp

Submitted by theodp on Tuesday October 09 2007, @02:59AM
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theodp writes "Two years ago, Robert X. Cringely wrote that Google was experimenting with portable data centers built in standard shipping containers. The idea, Cringely explained, wasn't new and wasn't even Google's, backing up his claim with a link to an Internet-Archive-in-a-Shipping-Container presentation (PDF, dated 11-8-2003) that was reportedly pitched to Larry Page. Google filed for a patent on essentially the same concept on 12-30-2003. And on Tuesday, the USPTO issued the search giant a patent for Modular Data Centers housed in shipping containers, which Google curiously notes facilitate 'rapid and easy relocation to another site depending on changing economic factors,' a statement that may make those tax-abating NC officials a tad uneasy."
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