Frederick County Executive Jessica Fitzwater on Thursday introduced legislation that would create a floating zone to further restrict where data centers can be built in the county, as well as more ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Something big and mysterious is rising from a floating barge at the end of Treasure Island, a former Navy base in the middle of San Francisco Bay. And Google's fingerprints are all ...

A mysterious barge has materialized near San Francisco, and naturally, has been generating a lot of speculation. Moored off of the Treasure Island pier, the massive barge is reported to be part of a ...

(TNS) -- Forget the Google barge. Nautilus Data Technologies Inc. of Pleasanton, Calif., has built the real deal — a barge 235 feet long and 55 feet wide, capable of carrying up to 540 racks of ...

A recently unearthed Google patent applications sketches a comprehensive system for a floating data center powered by wave motions and cooled by the sea's water. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

Is Google preparing another “moon shot”? The barge discovered in the San Francisco Bay this week hints at it, and rampant speculation has Google building a floating data center. Google hasn’t ...

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has been awarded a U.S. patent for its floating data centers that are powered by waves and cooled by sea water. The offshore data centers would site 3 to 7 miles offshore and ...

The future of data centers appears to be a move from the land to the sea, with power coming from the movement of the water and cooling coming directly from the ocean. Google was granted a patent for a ...

The idea of floating data centers is hardly a new one, but Google looks like it might be set to take things a big step further than most, at least if one of its recent patent applications is any ...