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Google Issued Data Center Container Patent 
By: Nathan Weinberg 2007-10-11 Google has been issued a patent for putting a data center in a giant shipping container, a system designed to make it easier for the company to relocate data centers based on economic and other logistical factors. For two years, weve been hearing about Google designing these things, but no ones actually seen Google putting any into production. Now, Google owns the concept. Of course, as Slashdot points out, Google wasnt the first to come up with this idea. Robert Cringely explained how Larry Page heard the idea at a presentation sponsored by Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive. Called a PetaBox, it seems to be the same product, so why did Google get a patent? It is possible Googles filing of the patent, on December 30, 2003, pre-dates all prior art, but thats going to annoy a lot of other companies whove had the same damn idea. It has been pointed out by a bunch of people that, even if Google doesnt deserve this patent, there might be nothing wrong with the company having it. If Google isnt evil, then it would only push for the patent so no other company could grab the idea and cost Google a lot of money by suing them. If Google is evil, then even though it created this tech for internal purposes, not for a product, it would go around suing everyone, including Sun. Guess this is a good opportunity to test that whole Dont Be Evil thing. Comments Tag: Google Add to  Del.icio.us |  Digg |  Reddit |  Furl Have a bookmark! -  About the Author: Nathan Weinberg writes the popular InsideGoogle blog, offering the latest news and insights about Google and search engines. Visit the InsideGoogle blog. |
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