Soiled water and fluctuating pressures in Debert’s municipal system on Sunday was created by the unauthorized hook-up of a local data centre. The situation arose when Bastionhost, an information technology firm housed in Deberts’ former military bunker, ran into water supply issues.

Yahoo has revealed plans to invest US$500 million in expanding its data centre infrastructure. Yahoo says it plans to build in 2012 and beyond. The planned expansion includes existing data centres in Buffalo, Omaha and Washington state and new facilities in Singapore and Switzerland.

“We are in essence rewiring the entire infrastructure of Yahoo,” Scott Noteboom, the head of data centre operations at Yahoo said. “We’ve gained approval to invest half a billion dollars to build new data centres. We’ll be migrating the entire footprint of Yahoo to these more efficient facilities.”