From The Register:
On Tuesday, the US Patent Office gave Google exclusive rights to what the search giant cum world power calls a “water-based data center.” This collection of Googlicious data center pods would sit on some sort of sea vessel anchored somewhere offshore, using the ocean waves for both power and cooling.
As the patent describes it: “Computing centers are located on a ship or ships, which are then anchored in a water body from which energy from natural motion of the water may be captured, and turned into electricity and/or pumping power for cooling pumps to carry heat away from computers in the data center.”
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