Yahoo!’s new data center powered by Niagara Falls

On the first day of this month we mentioned about Yahoo’s green data center that cools with outside air. Today Yahoo is back on Greenlaunches with more green about the same. Yahoo! has announced plans of one of the greenest, most energy-efficient data centers in the world. Located in Lockport, New York, this new data center will get its power from Niagara Falls. Sourced from these gigantic falls, the hydroelectric power is put to good use too as the construction will not require the use of air conditioning meaning 90% of the power goes to the servers. It is known that many typical data centers only use around 50% of the power for the servers. And the green quest doesn’t end here. The company is also committed to reducing the carbon footprint of all their data centers by 40 percent by 2014.

They intend to accomplish this through using more renewable energy sources to power their data centers, implementing more efficient building designs and improving the efficiency of the servers themselves.
[Geek]