Word from a reliable source has it that Google has decided to establish a Top Secret datacenter on the Moon!

Apparently the lower gravity will extend life and enhance performance of Google’s storage systems, while reducing greatly the cooling costs associated. “The costs of cooling a datacenter on Earth are already tremendous, and growing. On the Moon, we will only have to open the windows.” Said a senior Google official.

When asked why the datacenter was not simply placed in Earth orbit, with much of the same potential benefit, the Google official remarked that insurance costs would be reduced, with an installation on “solid ground,” and besides, “We’re Google.”

Clyde Butterworth, Senior Skeptic at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, was skeptical. “This is a truly exciting hoax, on par with the original staged Moon landing,” Butterworth was quoted as saying, briefly before being knocked completely unconscious by American Hero and 1974 El Paco County Taco eating champion Buzz Aldrin. This makes Aldrin the second man to knock out Mr. Butterworth. On news of the Butterworth attack, Google’s stock rose 13% today.