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| The mystery barge (Image: news.cnet.com) |
The story has unfolded over many months. As it happens, the boats have a corporate identity more in tune with intelligence operations than freight transportation. The listed owners are an outfit called By and Large, LLC. Who are the LLC's corporate officers? That's confidential.
The barges house four-story structures that have provoked some speculation regarding their purpose. Records suggest, without factually demonstrating, that Google has some involvement with the barges and By and Large, LLC. A recent edition of siliconvalley.com reported this story, originally noted in CNET, and some of the guesswork about Google's intentions.
One hypothesis contends that the barges support server farms. I have no idea how close this assertion is an accurate one. However, Google would be very interested in establishing server farms in international waters. Those locations would form a considerable push back against NSA pressure to conform with surveillance "requests." I wonder if they could also become, literally speaking, "tax islands" free from any government entity's revenue demands.
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