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Yahoo's "Chicken Coop" Data Center Design
1sockchuck writes "Yahoo has come up with a data center design called the Yahoo Computing Coop, which it says will make its new data center in Lockport, NY one of the most efficient on earth. The design features 120-foot by 60-foot metal prefabricated facilities with louvers on the side to support free cooling, and a peaked roof to manage the release of waste heat from the hot aisle. Chief Yahoo David Filo said the name was adopted 'because it looks like something chickens live in.' The $150 million data center in Western New York, which was announced earlier today, will run on cheap hydro power from the Niagara River."
For a moment there I panicked about a chicken coup trying to overtake Yahoo. Although chickens can not make it any worse for Yahoo than it already is.
The image of millions of chickens rising up against the tyranny of Yahoo and running around all excited is simply awesome. I, therefore, petition that Yahoo at least change the name to Chicken Coup if not go all the way to welcoming their new chicken overlords!
Which is why a typical Google search returns 16 million hits.
What sorta chicken shit operation is Yahoo turning into?
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
I hear performance will now be quoted in cluck cycles. /sorry
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
That comes down quite rapidly, though, once you start specifying things like her hair colour... ...or so I'm told...