Scrapped Google Showroom Barges Were Fire Risks
Sky News
Technology • November 2014 • Views: 667
Two mysterious Google barges earmarked to become floating showrooms were scuppered after authorities decided they were a fire risk, new documents reveal.
They appeared in San Francisco and Portland, Maine, in the second-half of 2013 but at the time, Google would not reveal their planned purpose.
The firm later said they would become floating tech showrooms, but it has emerged that the US Coast Guard had repeatedly raised fire-safety concerns.