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Monday 8 September 2008, 2:12 PM
Google patents wave-powered server farm
Eco-geek.org is reporting that the search giant put out a patent application last year for a wave-powered server farm.
http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/2086/
According to another article on Earth Times, the power for the sea-bound servers will come from "Pelamis wave energy converters."
http://www.fashionfunky.com/2008/09/google_turns_to_the_worlds_oce.php
No surprises that Google is taking the massive contribution that datacentres make to climate change very seriously and this sea-powered patent (if it proves accurate) follows on from the massive investment in geothermal technology the company announced last month:
Google warms to geothermal datacentre plan
http://andrewdonoghue.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2217004%3ABlogPost%3A421
http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/2086/
According to another article on Earth Times, the power for the sea-bound servers will come from "Pelamis wave energy converters."
http://www.fashionfunky.com/2008/09/google_turns_to_the_worlds_oce.php
No surprises that Google is taking the massive contribution that datacentres make to climate change very seriously and this sea-powered patent (if it proves accurate) follows on from the massive investment in geothermal technology the company announced last month:
Google warms to geothermal datacentre plan
http://andrewdonoghue.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2217004%3ABlogPost%3A421
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