Google gets patent on floating data centers

If they don't pay taxes, wouldn't they be subject to (real) pirates?

It used to be, you actually had to build something to get a patent on it. Now you can just imagine it.

Patents outside national jurisdictions? That's funny.

There's the piracy, and there's also the question of replacing components. The costs of replacing machines on a boat are very different from on level ground that trucks can drive to.

I would love to see some diagrams of the design.