Announced in April 2018, This will be Yahoo Japan’s second infrastructure project on foreign soil, following a 200-rack facility in Washington state in 2014.
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Rendering of Yahoo Japan's Facility Under Construction
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Yahoo Japan’s data center will be built using Open Compute Project designs for the sake of increasing efficiency. By processing data in the United States, the company claims to have reduced its electricity costs to a sixth of what it would have paid if it remained confined to Japan.
Yahoo Japan team breaks ground on East Wenatchee data center
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A priest blesses the construction site in East Wenatchee WA
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