S.S. Google

Google may take to the high seas with the launch of its own "computer navy”.

The company is considering deploying the supercomputers necessary to operate its internet search engines on barges anchored up to seven miles offshore.

The “water-based data centres” would use wave energy to power and cool their computers, reducing Google’s costs.

What a hoot... Wave energy.

Wave energy - at its present level of development, could provide enough energy to run their coffee pot, but to get enough energy to run and cool their computers? Not a chance.

More realistically, maybe Google should place its data centers close to large bodies of water, like nuclear reactors, which also generate massive amounts of heat.

Even better, put them near a nuclear reactor where both cooling water and energy are readily available.

However, the real issue here is government regulation, not operating expenses. Every government on the planet us trying to control the internet and put a stop to its free flow of information, much of it detrimental to politicians and governments in general. The "seven miles" comment is just a red herring, they would actually be anchored a bit beyond the 12-mile territorial limit.

Its not energy or heat that's the problem... it's the government's endless attempts at control and regulation. The dirty rotten thieving bastards in Washington and on Wall Street just can't allow the average man on the street to become... informed.