[vox_freedom]

The Google site under construction in The Dalles, Ore. The one-story building at left will probably house thousands of Google servers, requiring the cooling systems at right to prevent overheating. Photo by Melanie Conner for The New York Times

[underbyte]

Live on the water and sooner or later you are gonna get wet.

Stupid lacation IMHO

[grey_whiskers]

Where'a an environmentalist when you need one?

And when do we get to dunk Brin and Page's collective heads?

Cheers!

[coconutt2000]

I have a feeling the location might present some problems if it should rain... a lot.

Or if global warming creates an exceptional fast and furious runoff. ;-)

[Libertina]

And why is Oregon selling nice riverfront property so these lefties who cow-tow to commies can have big storage areas? Make then stay inland.

[LiteKeeper]

SPOTREP

[Boundless]

So is it just a trick of perspective in the photo,
or is the Forbin Project being built on floodplain?

[JZelle]

How high's the water Momma
Five feet high and rising

[js1138]

The Google site under construction in The Dalles, Ore. The one-story building at left will probably house thousands of Google servers, requiring the cooling systems at right to prevent overheating.

I'm willing to be wrong, but the buildings at the end look to me like generator buildings for uninterrupted power. I've worked in a data center that had something that looked like this.