Internet giant yahoo inc (posted) recently announced that it plans to build a new data center in New York state Lockport the use of the Internet and data storage capabilities, to meet the needs of rapid growth.
Yahoo is accelerating its data center investments in western New York state. The expansion will involve additional investment of $168 million, will create 115 additional jobs.
Company will build a new data center on the yahoo computing cabin (YCC) architecture. YCC is a efficient data center design, use less energy and water than traditional data center. Unique shape building, make the company can use of renewable energy, such as wind cooling purposes. This eliminated the need for expensive and energy-intensive chiller server to keep cool.
Company, such as Google (GOOG), apple (AAPL), and other cloud computing providers are trying to use renewable energy electric power data center, help help to reduce global warming, reduce energy costs, and conform to the regulations.
Data center expanding demand is on the rise, as a result of cloud computing and the Internet users to the growing demand of growing demand. And computer servers, data centers, the big Banks, including all process from Internet search, E-mail, video and other services.
Independent research firm Gartner predicts, the data center hardware spending will be most likely to cross the $126.2 billion in 2015. These technology warehouse witness strength, such as video streaming, smartphones and the applications needed to run hard drive needs to improve.
In the third quarter of fiscal 2012, yahoo's revenue of $1.20 us $, among them, 1.3% and 1.3% lower than last quarter, compared with a year earlier. Traffic acquisition costs (TAC), fell by 17.7% and 22.2%, from last year. Regardless of the cost in each period, in a row, on the basis of basic flat net revenue, up 1.6% from a year earlier, by last year's consensus estimate.
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