I worry about the logistics. What if there's some condition where the barge needs to be evacuated (storm, etc.). Since nobody has visas for the mainland, where would they go?
Also, let's say you have 1000 engineers living and working there; where are you going to get all that network bandwidth? Wireless?
> What if there's some condition where the barge needs to be evacuated
Whatever a cruise ship or airplane does.
> Also, let's say you have 1000 engineers living and working there; where are you going to get all that network bandwidth?
Undersea cable, attached to a buoy. Or yeah, wireless. Have a local copy of as much as possible to allow development with a minimum of ship-to-shore packet transmission.
I worry about the logistics. What if there's some condition where the barge needs to be evacuated (storm, etc.). Since nobody has visas for the mainland, where would they go?
Also, let's say you have 1000 engineers living and working there; where are you going to get all that network bandwidth? Wireless?
Finally, families?