2. Categories

      Data Center Design: Construction, Container, Data Center Outages, Monitoring, Power and Cooling
      Policy: Cap and Trade, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Carbon Tax, Emissions
      Power: Biomass, Fossil Fuel, Fuel Cell, Geothermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
      Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
      Technology: Microblogging, Networking, Servers, Storage, Supercomputer

  3. Quotes

    1. “ There's a second war between the states for these data centers. ”
      By Jack Boyd
    2. “ Power costs tend to dominate the equation. ”
      By Jack Boyd

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  1. Sweet deals lure major data centers

    The Buffalo News (Nov 7 2010)

    1. Sweet deals lure major data centers Politicians and economic development officials have given hundreds of companies millions of dollars in subsidies over the years, but those incentives are chump change compared with what's being offered in an effort to lure data centers to the region. Yahoo opened a data center in Lockport in August that involves some $200 million in tax breaks -- including no property tax payments for 10 years -- plus $58 million in electricity discounts from the state Power Authority and a $10 million federal stimulus grant. (Read Full Article)

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