I won't bet (seems hard anyway - we would have needed an escrow) but I'm curious if/when they are finally opened to the public. Did they announce at least who is the target audience of the "interactive technology centre", when it will be done or any other new info?
thx
Topic: Google 'Floating Structures'. Anyone wants to bet what those are? (Read 3464 times)
March 04, 2014, 01:58:28 PM
There is a real opportunity to win or lose some bitcoin? I don't think so.
February 28, 2014, 03:12:43 PM
That's where Google stores their pallets of cash 
hmm, don't think so...
they could fill the surface of moon with their money
=> they should start building a space lift
February 28, 2014, 02:16:04 PM
Another is that they have so much money they just don't know what to do with it.
Most Likely this
February 28, 2014, 12:46:56 PM
Google's mystery barge is heading on a short cruise to comply with an order requiring it to move from its current home on a San Francisco Bay island.
The agency leasing the Treasure Island space where the barge is being built says the four-story vessel is bound for the Port of Stockton, a destination located about 80 miles east of San Francisco.
The barge is supposed to move by March 7, according to Mirian Saez, director of operations for the Treasure Island Development Authority, which rented the vessel's current home.
Google Inc. and the Port of Stockton didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
The barge is leaving because of a Jan. 31 regulatory order concluding that Google didn't have the proper building permits at Treasure Island. The Port of Stockton falls outside the jurisdiction of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, the regulator that cracked down on the barge.
Google had halted work on the barge late last year amid speculation that the Mountain View, Calif., company was building an aquatic store to sell its products or a party boat.
The company says the barge will serve as an interactive technology center once it's done. A similar barge is being built by Google on the East Coast, too.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GOOGLE_BARGE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-02-27-16-34-07
February 26, 2014, 10:51:46 AM
Google uses pods as part of the data center footprint. Usually they look more like over sized personal on demand storage units. I would suggest this is a larger version of that footprint. which has been in use for years. Data Centers need tons of cool air, maybe they will used the open water as a resource for cooling. They built a structure in the mountains in New York state, and designed the building to use the ambient temperatures to move the heat our of the dc.
December 13, 2013, 05:59:39 AM
That's where Google stores their pallets of cash
Hahaha nice answer :"DD
November 27, 2013, 02:23:42 PM
Why is this thread still alive?
November 27, 2013, 12:08:44 PM
Greenhouses? 
Meteorological survey stations?
Meteorological survey stations?
November 27, 2013, 03:53:38 AM
And, did anyone know what are they or you guys are still guessing
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A Google spokesperson told TechCrunch that the barges are ‘an interactive space' to teach people about its technology
http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/06/google-says-its-using-mystery-barges-as-interactive-space-where-people-can-learn-about-its-technology/As one man before said, Mybe that is the prison from which Arnold and Silvester escaped
November 27, 2013, 12:06:38 AM
And, did anyone know what are they or you guys are still guessing
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A Google spokesperson told TechCrunch that the barges are ‘an interactive space' to teach people about its technology
http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/06/google-says-its-using-mystery-barges-as-interactive-space-where-people-can-learn-about-its-technology/ November 26, 2013, 05:23:01 PM
And, did anyone know what are they or you guys are still guessing
November 04, 2013, 06:47:38 PM
One barge no problem! When they start putting dozens of these daisy chained in international waters ..
November 04, 2013, 05:33:30 PM
This is the prison where Sylvester and Arnold escape from in the future.
then they are makin a movie
They already made one, and it was crap.
November 04, 2013, 05:28:19 PM
This is the prison where Sylvester and Arnold escape from in the future.
then they are makin a movie
November 03, 2013, 07:39:04 PM
This is the prison where Sylvester and Arnold escape from in the future.
November 03, 2013, 01:33:13 PM
That's where Google stores their pallets of cash
Giant bitcoin miners water cooled by the ocean.
Very good idea. Bitcoin miners in Antarctica? (penguins!)
Why not?!?! They had the best cooling
Solar power for half the year?
November 02, 2013, 02:51:24 AM
That's where Google stores their pallets of cash
Giant bitcoin miners water cooled by the ocean.
Very good idea. Bitcoin miners in Antarctica? (penguins!)
Why not?!?! They had the best cooling
November 01, 2013, 08:45:34 PM
That's where Google stores their pallets of cash
Giant bitcoin miners water cooled by the ocean.
Very good idea. Bitcoin miners in Antarctica? (penguins!)
November 01, 2013, 07:19:49 PM
I think its a data center. Probably has something to do with cooling. I know it sounds weird, but google is into that type of shit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_barges
read it here
How exactly did wikipedia decide on that? Seems like somebody just guessed and put it in a wikipedia article TBH.
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