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Yahoo to build data center in Western New York
ALBANY - Yahoo! Inc. will build a new data center in Lockport in Niagara County. Through an agreement with the New York Power Authority (NYPA), Yahoo! plans to invest tens of millions dollars in the construction and computer equipment fit-out of its new East Coast regional data center.
The project is expected to create up to 125 full-time jobs across the state, with additional construction-specific jobs during the multi-year facility construction phase.
The Yahoo! data center will receive an allocation of 10 megawatts of low-cost hydropower from NYPA for the first phase of construction, which is expected to begin in the fall of 2009 and allow the facility to be operational in January 2011. A second phase of the project, expected to start in the spring of 2012, would potentially include tens of millions in additional investments from Yahoo! for Western New York. In return, Yahoo! would receive an additional five megawatts of NYPA hydropower.