Google’s mysterious barges project has apparently been shut down by the Coast Guard due to safety issues relating to fire. According to an inspector from the Coast Guard, the barge could prove dangerous in a fire. Google claimed the barges would be used to demo new technology, which coupled with 5,000 gallons of fuel could combine to make the new tech not the only hot thing on board.
Google originally had two barges under construction: one on the east coast, and one on the west. The east coast barge in Maine has been scrapped and sold, but the west coast barge has been relocated, supposedly to continue to make the designs fall more in line with Uncle Sam’s specifications.
The only way we know that the barges’ construction had been halted was from documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, but if you think you can use the documents to figure out just what Google has up its sleeve, guess again. Not even the Coast Guard can peep about the subject, since the tech giant forced them to sign NDA’s at the start of the project.
Source: Wall Street Journal
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