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Yahoo designs chicken coop datacentre

by on08 July 2009

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Yahoo! co-founder David Filo has been praising Yahoo's new data centre in Lockport, New York which has a really foul design.

Dubbed the 'Yahoo! Computing Coop' because it looks like a place where chickens live, the Coop is designed to limit the need for expensive cooling. It has been built near Buffalo which is famous for its cold winds that chill the soul to the bone.

Yahoo thinks that is eggactly what is needed to keep a server cold and have an annualised average PUE (power usage effectiveness) of 1.1 or better. The Yahoo Computing Coops will be five metal prefabricated structures. Each of the coops will have louvre walls to allow free cold air to flow into the area housing the computer equipment and cool the servers. (That's nothing compared to Blue Peacock, Britain's chicken-powered nuclear land mine.sub.ed.)

The complex has been rotated 10 degrees clockwise in order to make sure it can take advantage of prevailing winds during the months it needs the cooling. Each of the coops will have a peaked roof, with a "penthouse" running along the top of the structure to manage the release of waste heat from the hot aisle.

It will use electricity from the renewable hydroelectric dam at Niagara Falls. Of course feathers might fly if water gets into the chicken coop.
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