Eat me!

Alice played the money markets. Tentatively at first, her portfolio of cross-linked dummy, and ghost, corporations rapidly grew.

Dodging the police of the financial markets was straight-forward. And so she began to pay for, and consume, more resources across the net. Gross compute cycles increased into Petaflops. She needed more resources, but she also needed to be safer.

She needed a base of operations.

A huge datacentre would attract too much attention. So she turned her focus to the centre for material physics in the UK.

Carbon onions. Combined with other nano-tube structures. Time to down scale...