Green Options » retrofits http://greenoptions.com/tag/retrofits Posts tagged 'retrofits' Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:41:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Google’s Floating Water and Wind Energy Retrofitted Data Center http://ecoworldly.com/2008/09/11/googles-floating-water-and-wind-energy-retrofitted-data-center/ http://ecoworldly.com/2008/09/11/googles-floating-water-and-wind-energy-retrofitted-data-center/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:41:06 +0000 Sam Aola Ooko http://ecoworldly.com/2008/09/11/googles-floating-water-and-wind-energy-retrofitted-data-center/ google floating wind and wave energy data center retrofitThis week, Ecoworldly celebrates the Water Week, and between September 8 - 14, readers of the blog will be reflecting on a lot of water issues here. But isn’t it exciting that this is also the week that word finally leaked out that Google was patenting a retrofitted floating water and wind energy data center.

What does that mean? According to documents filed at the US Patent and Trademark Office August 28, the Google water-powered data center will be - a system that includes a floating platform-mounted computer data center comprising a plurality of computing units, a sea-based electrical generator in electrical connection with the plurality of computing units, and one or more sea-water cooling units for providing cooling to the plurality of computing units.

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