re: religion and technology » AI http://religionandtechnology.com "The subjects are cyborg, nature is coyote, and the geography is elsewhere." * Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:57:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://religionandtechnology.com http://religionandtechnology.com/favico.ico re: religion and technology Floating Data Centers http://religionandtechnology.com/2008/09/08/floating-data-centers/ http://religionandtechnology.com/2008/09/08/floating-data-centers/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:31:58 +0000 MOR http://religionandtechnology.com/2008/09/08/floating-data-centers/ This feels at first, in a speculative fiction sort-of-way, like one more step toward turning the planet into a large neural network… Building floating synapses for the network mind, out in the sea.

“In general, computing centers are located on a ship or ships, which are then anchored in a water body from which energy from natural motion of the water may be captured, and turned into electricity and/or pumping power for cooling pumps to carry heat away from computers in the data center,” Google writes in the patent application.

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