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Yahoo's new "Chicken Coop" server farm is a building that breathes

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On a heavy Core77 blogging day, my laptop will become uncomfortably hot. And that's just one machine; you can imagine what kind of blistering heat a server farm must kick out.

Today Yahoo is opening a new data center in upstate New York, and the facility has been innovatively designed to deal with the heat problem. (It looks rather like a physical storage facility, but those aren't roll-up garage doors, they're louvers. Read on.)

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