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Re: an over-the-top data center

  • From: Patrick W. Gilmore
  • Date: Mon Dec 01 14:25:01 2008
On Dec 1, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
On 1-Dec-08, at 10:27 AM, Danny McPherson wrote:

On a related noted, some have professed that adapting old
ships into data centers would provide eco-friendly secure
data center solutions.

Your data connection to shore is going to be tenuous at best. One good blow strong enough to make you drag anchor and you kiss goodbye your fibre trunk connection. Putting that back in service is a bit more than a four hour splice job.

Not if the ship is literally encased in concrete at the shore. Which solves all your other problems as well.

There are even examples of actual free-floating ships which have been stable for a decade or more. See the floating casinos in Louisiana, which have been hit by hurricanes, and are still attached to shore by electricity, bits, and physically.

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TTFN,
patrick