Google Patents 'Tower of Containers'

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11 points1SockChuck4 comments

And it's easy on the eyes, too! Who wouldn't want one of these marvels of stalinist design near where they live?

Yet more evidence that engineers shouldn't try to be architects.

I call prior art. There's some religious group using a stack of about 6 cargo containers as a billboard within sight of I-45 in Houston. I can't spot it on Google Maps -- it's hard to recognize one nondescript rectangle over another.

I think there is a difference between stacking cargo containers for use as a billboard and connecting cargo containers to a spine that provides power and cooling, with the purpose of running a bunch of servers inside the cargo containers.

Google did not patent stacking cargo containers, but stacking them in a specific way for a specific purpose, with additional resources.

I am a little surprised I was taken so seriously or even seriously at all.

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