Re:Uncle Sam beat em to it... (Score 1)

We also used standard ISO-sized shipping containers for CENTCOM's deployable headquarters (now in Qatar) for both expandable office space and servers in 2002. There was also a Shelter Management Office at Hanscom AFB set up in the late '70's and early '80's that helped projects across the Air Force design and employ standard ISO-sized containers in a multitude of deployable/transportable electronic systems (including a mobile satellite control system I worked on), back when a google was simply 10^100...