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Sun Blackbox - Rapidly Deployable Data Center

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Sun Blackbox on Mars Sun’s Project Blackbox — data center in a standard 20-foot shipping container, coming mid-next year, which CEO Jonathan Schwartz introduced here. Up to 250 servers, or 1.5 perabytes of storage. All you need is space, power and water to have your own data center hosted. Let me check my backyard — space? Just fit. Power? Check — I’ll pull one from the house. It is supposed to be power efficient, right? Water? Feel free to use one of my gardening hose. Looks like I am all ready to power the next mega Web 2.0 company!

Better, if it can indeed get electricity from solar power, like this image showing on Sun’s website. That would save me a few dollars on bills from Energy Australia.

Starting price? $500,000. Which would be peanuts if you get acquired by Google for 1.65 billion dollars.