Big Green Facilities in the Big Apple
New green data centers have been the story du jour, as GCR kicked off the day with an exposé on Apple’s somewhat controversial Maiden, North Carolina data center. Apple’s announcement yesterday slightly overshadowed two fairly significant facility announcements from Yahoo and the city of New York.
Yahoo opened with announcing the expansion of their facility in Lockport, New York. The expansion of the Western New York data center, which opened in 2010, will focus on using hydropower in an attempt to further Yahoo’s energy efficiency campaign. The expansion will also provide a boon to the Western New York IT community.
"Low-cost hydropower is one of the most effective economic development tools that we have to create jobs in Western New York and this allocation demonstrates my administration's steadfast efforts to ensure the strategic and effective use of this valuable resource to expand the Buffalo-Niagara region's workforce,” said New York governor Andrew M. Cuomo on Yahoo’s Western New York data center expansion.
Providing hydropower requires cooperation of the state in New York, a cooperation for which Yahoo is grateful to further the company’s green commitment. “Yahoo! is committed to being an environmentally responsible company, and we thank New York state and local authorities for working with us to ensure we continue to power our data center with clean energy,” said Yahoo central technology EVP David Dibble.
Elsewhere in New York, Sabey Corporation may have pulled off an even more impressive feat in securing a 32-story data center…in Manhattan.
Yes, to say that real estate in Manhattan is at a premium is an understatement. Yet somehow Sabey Corp managed to find a space to put Intergate.Manhattan, which will put a lot of New Yorkers closer to a significant source of green computing power.
According to David A. Sabey, president of Sabey Corp, Intergate.Manhattan upon its completion will be the largest and most efficient high-rise data center in the world. "We stripped this building to the bone and the data center is 100 percent brand new," Sabey said at the press conference. "It has state-of-the-art energy management. We make all of our data centers as green as possible."
Of course, these facilities will only be known as energy efficient once they are fully operational. With that said, commitments to the advancement of green computing, especially those of large institutions, are encouraging. Even more encouraging would be if these commitments hold.
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