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According to Albany Times Union, the construction of the $150 million Yahoo! Inc. data center in Lockport N.Y. is progressing, with the first phase of the work complete and the second phase under way.
Town officials and Yahoo have said the data center should be operational by September this year. Work on the second phase should be completed by next spring. The firm StructureTone is overseeing the project, and work is being done by local companies. Yahoo has been very pleased with the results so far, Town Supervisor Marc R. Smith said to local media.
Yahoo!'s intention is to build the 190,000-square-foot data center on a 30-acre site in two phases.
Yahoo! chose Lockport because of affordable electricity, climate and the availability of skilled workforce. The company is receiving 15 megawatts of power from the New York Power Authority.
Scott Noteboom, the company’s data center operations director, was quoted in planning board meeting notes as saying that Yahoo! needed a new data center because its number of users (more than 500 million) was growing.
The 30-acre site will consist of an administrative center and five data "wings," or sections that will house computer hardware and servers. Phase one was the construction of the 35,000-square-foot administrative center and three of the 30,000-square-foot wings. The second phase is the remaining two wings to the east of the administrative center.
The center is expected to bring at least 75 jobs to Niagara County.
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