I hope they won´t repack it in a 27 times larger cardboard box, like their EULAs.

Will HAL be responsible for these PODS, and if so, will Dave be able to get in this time?

That's not a datacenter, that's the new Bristol Labs building.

Are they grounded vis-a-vis lightning storms?

..behold your new overlords.

Nothing to see here. A 40' container can routinely contain goods valued in excess of the paltry $1.4M cited here. And the DO get nicked on occasion.

Consider how many Nikons, iPods, <pick your favorite high-end consumer item> you can stuff inside a box 40' X 9' X 8'. Multiply by retail cost.

I make it to be about $3M for ipods, as a rough guess.

Company I used to work for had a case where high-value freight being trucked into the US from Mexico (car parts?) was being hijacked. Suspected to be an inside job... somebody was tipping off the bad guys as to which container on which truck had the good stuff.

http://promotetheprogress.com/blog/googles-sea-based-data-center-patent-highlights-the-narrow-focus-of-the-companys-call-for-patent-reform/1221/

Redmond to follow......hopefully.

Arrr!

Just down the road from one of our branch offices there is a "temporary office" that has sprung up for a well-known gas supplier. We watched as they built a two-story corral of Portakabin-type offices, and the other week they craned two containers with AC units and plenty of power cables into the middle, probably their new datacenter. At a guess, I'd say the whole affair has been probably less than half as expensive to build as the concrete and steel monstrosity that is our branch office, and has been assembled in a matter of weeks. Maybe this is the way most non-HQ offices will be going.