The Google Datacenter on Water

      by Wyatt Walter

Rumors are flying around the web about potential Google data centers out to sea. Google has cited a few reasons including using the energy from the waves to bring down cooling and power costs. Others have suggested that Google is trying to escape property taxes for its data centers around the world, but that seems it seems a bit ridiculous to me. Whatever the reasons, I’m not sure that I’d like to see their data centers on water.

Isolating data centers on the water scares me. Google of course has a very robust infrastructure, but, like it or not, they are an extremely important part of our national and international ecosystem. We’ve seen what kind of affect a small mistake by the Googlebot can cause on Wall Street. Combine that with the attacks on Georgia’s infrastructure from Russia and we could have a real concern on our hands. I definitely see the advantages here, but let’s keep our feet on solid ground for now. Whether or not we choose to believe it, a crippled Google means a crippled Internet and a crippled Internet means a crippled nation.

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