Yahoo building another green data center

June 30th, 2009 Alex

Yahoo! has announced along with New York Governor David Patterson and Senator Chuck Schumer in Buffalo, New York plans to build a new data center in New York as one of the greenest and most energy-efficient in the world. It will be powered by renewable hydroelectric power from Niagara Falls and 90% of that energy will power the servers. The Bufalo data center will have a unique building design called the Yahoo! Computing Coop which resembles a chicken coop to take advantage of the climate in Buffalo and use 100% outside air to cool the servers.

Yahoo! built the first green data center in Washington two years ago and has saved energy consumption by 40-50%. Taking advantage of natural resources to power and cool the data centers can make a huge impact as it takes a tremendous amount of resources to keep the servers up and running 24/7 for 365 days a year.

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