Wow, Sun now sells complete data-centers-in-a-mini-shipping-container 20x8x8. With water cooling and power connections. I’ll have some fried computers with that, please!
http://www.networkcomputing.com/channels/storageandservers/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=VZHZD4MUQBIRSQSNDLRCKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=193303412
I guess if you’re Augur and need to break the Taelon’s rotating encryption, fight the lizard people, like on V series, or just a quickly growing company this sounds like a nifty idea. YOu can lift it on a crane to your building top (or helicopter it up to your secret mountaintop hideaway) Darn, wish I had a use for one of these.
As article says, typically a data center takes over a year to build and this is plug-n-play.. I suppose with a smart-building running windoze your new data-center shows up on-screen as a new device when you power it on 🙂 Now which box did they put that configuration DVD in…)
You may want to order a fuel-cell in a box about the same size to power it all. Power company uses these for aux power and others use them for sporting events, etc.
Possibly useful accessories for the budding mad (or happy) scientist: mini-particle accelerator, electron microscopes, DNA sequencing machines, petabyte WORM store jukebox, hi-res medical imaging machines, synthetic aperture radar, plastic or metal particle prototype 3D printing machines, massively parallel or SIMD supercomputers, etc…