Google construct a floating data center in San Francisco - Boursorama

Google employees in Taiwan during the Gay Pride on October 26.

Google is trying to build a center floating in the San Francisco Bay data, advance high-tech blog CNET. The Internet giant, which has not confirmed the news, is reportedly building a massive data center on a floating platform that can produce its own energy from the movement of the sea

According to CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman, a blog affiliated with CBS, “even if Google has not confirmed the project on the island of Treasure Island (…), there is plenty of evidence that the group behind what is happening in Hangar 3 and the barge docked south-east of the island “between Oakland and San Francisco. Show photos in a project to secure access, a multi-storey structure rising from a barge about 80 meters long.

PATENT

Google has long been interested in the concept of data centers floating self-sufficient in energy. The group has filed a patent in 2009 for a system that operates with electricity generators using the movement of water, also with cooling units, says CNET.

“The structure could it be a floating data center? hotline that we showed the pictures think, especially because the barges provide easy access to a source of cooling energy as is ie the sea, “says CNET, adding that the practice of installing data centers in containers is already common.

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