IBM has built a data center in Second Life. Being a geek, I found this a fascinating development, but unfortunately, based on the video, it looks to be just a sales ploy with no real technology backing it up.

Last year we played around with the idea of putting a data center in Second Life that usrs could actually control - after all, that’s what we do. Users would be able to build infrastructure in Second Life and it would be backed up in real-time by resources at one of our partners. Alas, though it’s an interesting idea, there just haven’t been cycles to implement it.