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( singing ) Yahoo!
SEN. SCHUMER: Today, we're here to celebrate the opening
of Yahoo's Data Center.
Now, is this a great day for Lockport
and Western New York, or what?
( applause )
Let's hear it for us!
BARTZ: It was very, very essential that the impact
on the environment and impact on our bottom line
be as small as possible, so it meant we had to
take inspiration from as many places as possible,
like your average farm, and in fact, more specifically,
the chicken coop.
With this data center, we're actually emulating
the long design of a chicken coop, where you have cooling
and air circulation 100% of the time, which means
you're going to spend less on energy and you're going to be
certainly much more efficient.
It's also a bit close to my heart.
I grew up on a farm in Wisconsin.
We had chicken coops.
Unfortunately, they didn't really look like this.
But I want you to understand how innovative this is.
Data centers, by nature, consume a tremendous amount of energy,
both to power, which you might expect,
but also to cool the computers.
GOV. PATTERSON: I personally had not thought there'd been
such a big temperature change since Mr. Freeze appeared
on "Batman" many years ago.
( laughter )
So it's great to be back here in Lockport.
I was actually here for the groundbreaking of Phase One.
You would have never convinced me that I'd be back here
in less than 13 months.
Usually, in this state, sometimes it takes
13 months to sign an MOU.
( laughter )
NOTEBOOM: A lot of the local economic development folks
were all about, you know, "Technology this," and
"Well, we can do this technology, that technology."
And one of the things that I said is,
"We're here to build a factory."
You know, an electricity plant is taking water
as a commodity and producing another valuable commodity
which is watts.
We're just the next step.
We're taking watts and producing another commodity which is bits.
So welcome to the Yahoo Data Center factory.
We're excited to have you all.
( applause )
DIBBLE: This building has set the standard by which
all other data centers the world over are being measured today
for efficiency.
It's not only efficiency from cost to operate,
it's efficiency in terms of environmental quality.
As you walk through this building,
you will see there is no raised floor;
the hollow-sounding floors that are so typical of data centers.
We don't need it.
You see louvers everywhere.
We make use of natural flowing air-- design factors
that many though were impossible.
The electricity we save at this site compared to the next
most efficient design is enough to power
9,000 New York state households every year.
REP. LEE: Couldn't be more proud of what's occurred,
and there is hope when you can see the public
and private sectors working so well together.
KESSEL: And that's what it's all about today.
Everyone in New York state will tell you, if there's one thing
on everyone's mind, it's jobs, jobs, jobs;
and we're creating them, and we'll continue to create them.
But the bottom line is that over 100 people here at Yahoo
have a job.
And we all know, no matter what you do, how important
a job is to everyone.
It's the most important thing, and right now in this economy,
this is an extraordinary accomplishment.
DIBBLE: It's not all about dollars
and cents, strictly speaking.
It's about the type of workforce that we were looking for,
it's the true cost to operate, if you will,
and I'll say for the record that the-- we call it the NOC,
the Network Operations Center-- the NOC went live in record time
and we could not be more happy for that, and all local hires.
KINGSLEY: I'm very excited to be working in a data center
where we have this type of technology, a dream data center,
the opportunity to work for a company that's so progressive.
SMITH: You know, at first, we were unsure of what kind of
company was coming here, and it just really turns out that
you Yahoos are very much like us.
You know, you're very professional, you're into
saving the environment, you've got a great work ethic,
and that's what so exciting to us.
BONANO: Yahoo pretty much built the coolest data center
in the world right in our backyard here,
so our team now has the challenge to operate it
to that standard, and that's exciting.
SEN. SCHUMER: It is unmistakable that there are new and exciting
industries driving our economy; industries that instead of
flowing through the Erie Canal on one of these,
flow through the internet on one of these.
( applause )
That's the difference, and Yahoo is at the forefront
of this new economy and Yahoo has chosen to locate
its most modern, up-to-date, to-be-envied data center
here in Western New York.
( applause )
I want to thank Carol Bartz and the Yahoos.
What a great team.
What a great company.
How proud we are, Carol, that you are here.
Yahoo came first, others will follow, and the future
of Western New York is turning around.
Thank you.
( cheers and applause )