Google Mystery Barge

quot;CNet reported Friday that a barge in San Francisco Bay stacked high with shipping containers may be a floating data center being built by Google. A nearly identical facility has appeared in a harbor in Portland, Maine, according to the Portland Press-Herald.

Both barges are owned by “By and Large. LLC,” which is a mysterious company whose name echoes a fictional corporation from Wall-E and other Pixar films. CNet has found numerous hints that the firm is tied to Google, which has a history of using LLCs to seed its data center projects.

But is it a data center? San Francisco’s KPIX reports that the building is indeed a Google initiative, but is actually a secret marketing barge to promote Google Glass, the company’s new wearable tech offering. The TV station said work has been halted because Google doesn’t have permits to park the barge at San Francisco’s Fort Mason, as it had hoped. "