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Story: Google patents data centre in a shipping container

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The answer is in the detail

Good point. Google has laid out a very detailed specification of their, very specific, idea which you can see in the patent (linked in the original story). It does not cover the general principle so much as lay out its idea of what a system in a box should be. Is this enough to sustain a patent? Well, the answer is yes apparently, but it is something I will be looking into during the next few days.
Also, it would be good to hear from anyone who remembers previous incarnations of the idea (a computer, storage, power supply, cooling in one portable unit, such as a standard container). There is much anecdotal information, but is there much substance?

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