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Yahoo's "Chicken Coop" Data Center Design

Posted by kdawson on from the almighty-buck-buck dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Fuck you, sexist jackass by teh+moges · · Score: 1, Offtopic

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  2. Path dependency by justinlee37 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm not a fan of Yahoo! but my Dad (born in 1960) has been using it as his primary e-mail and instant messaging service for years. It does everything he needs it to and he doesn't have the motivation to switch services. As far as I can tell the Yahoo! e-mail service has a comparable feature set to Gmail and Yahoo! messenger has all of the features of Google Talk (IE pop-up e-mail alerts, VOIP, messaging), except that it has been around for far longer.

    Yahoo! isn't "in style" anymore and I was never a huge fan of it myself but for some people "if it ain't broke don't fix it" is enough of a reason not to switch service providers. I bet that Yahoo! will decline in popularity as the years go on and more and more of it's user base kicks the bucket.

  3. Re:Fuck you, sexist jackass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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