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**TimSchroeder** · 10-09-2007, 08:30 PM

theodp writes "Two years ago, Robert X. Cringely wrote that Google was experimenting with portable data centers built in standard shipping containers. The idea, Cringely explained, wasn't new and wasn't even Google's, backing up his claim with a link to an Internet-Archive-in-a-Shipping-Container presentation (PDF, dated 11-8-2003) that was reportedly pitched to Larry Page. Google filed for a patent on essentially the same concept on 12-30-2003. And on Tuesday, the USPTO issued the search giant a patent for Modular Data Centers housed in shipping containers, which Google curiously notes facilitate 'rapid and easy relocation to another site depending on changing economic factors'. That's a statement that may make those tax-abating NC officials a tad uneasy."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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**swiftmed** · 10-10-2007, 07:01 PM

i must admit, its an excellent idea, and one im sure that google will now consider selling as a product. for example selling modular datacentres much like IBM now sells their server blade centre.

what do you guys think? will they sell this as a product, or just use it for their own purposes?