Yahoo opens a gigantic 180K Square Feet Data Center in Nebraska

Posted on February 20th, 2010
A blog post by DN (2 Comments)

As stated on a report by Data Center Knowledge, Yahoo (www.yahoo.com) has recently opened its gigantic and innovative data center in La Vista, Nebraska.

The moment when the facility is finished, it is credible and responsible to hold about a hundred thousand servers and about fifty employees. The 180,000 square feet data center is found near Omaha. In the near future, this facility will become the company’s biggest data center.

At first, in the early months of 2008, Yahoo looked out for the best locations in 17 states as to where they will incorporate their new data center. In the end of the line, they chose Nebraska. The reason why the company chooses Nebraska is because of its low-charged energy costs, competent and experienced work force and its national tax incentives.

The business transaction, which is worth a hundred million dollars, is incorporated with a customer care center in Omaha and the La Vista data center. In effect, they were able to produce two hundred jobs also to open opportunities for the people living there with the potential to become an employee.

As stated by the head of the data center development for Yahoo, named Scott Noteboom, “The new, innovative facility is presently running at about half of its capacity. The data center is able to support and assist the company’s e-mailing services, search engines and also various types of products and services that we offer.”

With the presence of Nebraska Dave Heineman and of course, other local officials, Yahoo organized an event which was held on Thursday to reveal the new data center.

More recently, Yahoo announced that they will build another data center in 30-acre land in Lockport Industrial Park in Western New York, which costs $150 million. This new data center will feature a new “computing coop” design.

Moreover, Yahoo was also in the Tuesday news because of investors selling their shares which cost millions of dollars such as the co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo in which they are willing to sell their 3 million dollar and 2 million dollar shares, respectively. Another big scoop on the news is the billionaire investor Carl Icahn which sold off more than 63 million dollars of his shares.