What does the future of data centers look like?

Data centers are to be found in the most unlikely places — from the icy tundra of Antarctica or the belly of a converted 19th century church, to a retrofitted nuclear bunker or a 32-story colossus. In 2009, Google received a patent for the idea of building data center platforms that would sit some miles offshore. Picture an oil platform for compute and storage and the whole thing running off wind and solar power. The jury is still out about the future of the data center. Will it become a modular shipping container and be shipped out to sea, one stacked on…

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