With Google looking to the sea and Apple eyeing North Carolina for data center expansion, Yahoo is feeling a bit left out.

In a need to keep up with infrastructure demand, Yahoo filed plans late last week to build a data center in Lockport, New York, a city 25-miles northeast of Buffalo.

The long-deposed search king warned that this was “not a done deal” and that the company is still considering other states for the big mess of silicone and wires it plans to put together.

However, the official filing of plans does demonstrate some sense of finality. It is most likely that Yahoo is waiting to see what tax package it can get from the government before breaking ground. The New York Power Authority has already allotted the facility 10 megawatts for construction up until 2012 and 15 megawatts thereafter.

Source: Data Center Knowledge

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