Google's Floating Data Center Patent Approved

One of the best things about Google is, for better or worse, the company seemingly has no sense of technological limits. Be it sending people into space for the X-Prize or offering rural Wi-Fi via weather balloons, the company is not afraid to test its own limits. Back in early 2007, the company filed a patent application for barge-based data centers, which use the water to both cool and power themselves. Full story...