Coast Guard visits mysterious 'Google barge'

[Grimslag]

9. It's just business bro, or...greed

Soon as they move this soon to be head office complex, just over 12 nautical miles off US shores, they are in international waters, no more pesky taxes for Google. Here is what drove them to this, a well documented 2004 hissy-fit: Not content with slashing its tax burden by channeling profits through overseas subsidiaries, Google now says it has actually overpaid $83.5m in tax – and it's suing the US Internal Revenue Service to get it back.

Any new federal regulations regarding the limiting of personal data retention, which they know are coming soon, will not effect the floating data storage island nation of Googledum.

Yar! we be data pirates an tax cheats.