Your Datacenter In A Shipping Container

There is cool, but this is beyond cool. Portability, combined with applicability means that this concept has feet, or wheels if you would. The icing on the cake is the last paragraph!

PBS | I, Cringely . October 20, 2006 - A Tradition of Empty Boxes

The beauty of a shipping container data center isn't just that it operates stand-alone and can be plunked down in the parking lot of your existing data center or dropped by helicopter on the roof of your headquarters building. A great proportion of its beauty lies in the shipping container's efficiency not as a server but as a network. It's the largest sneakernet ever built. Moving a petabyte of data across the country using even the biggest optical fiber connection could take weeks, but the Blackbox can be installed in at most a few days.
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But one mistake I think Google and Sun have made is in the form factor, itself. A smart competitor to Sun (my guess is Google) would get to work on a Blackbox equivalent that doesn't fit in a shipping container, but rather in an airfreight container or Unit Load Device. The second largest of these puppies, the LD8, holds 243 cubic feet, which is about one quarter the volume of Sun's Blackbox. Still, you could stuff an LD8 easily with a thousand Opterons and half a petabyte of storage and instead of delivering it by sea at 10 mph or by truck at 60 mph, you could deliver it by air at 600 mph.