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Yahoo! Chooses Swiss Site For European Data Centre Yahoo!, the Internet company, is planning to invest SFr100 million on a plant in Avenches, Vaud, Switzerland, located northwest of Fribourg, to serve as its European data centre. The company already has 20 data centres around the world. Plans submitted to the local municipality calls for a high-tech building, 220 meters long and 90 metres wide, which will offer 30,000 square metres of floor space on two levels. The company is reportedly planning to use only the ground floor of the building initially. Eight rooms housing computer servers will occupy 10,000 square metres of space, while 900 square metres will be devoted to offices. The roof will be covered with a wave-like complex of air conditioning units needed to cool the heat. Through a fiber-optic network, Yahoo! expects to feed all of Europe with its products from Avenches. A staff of 30 people will maintain operations at the plant year round. The plant, expected to be operational by 2009, will consume enough electricity annually to power a community of 4,000 homes, according to Swiss Electricity, the company supplying the plant. Yahoo! announced in October its intention to locate in Avenches after a search of several Swiss sites. At that time it signed a contract to acquire for SFr4.7-million a 36,000-square-metre property in the community that is already home to a Nespresso coffee plant. Another Internet giant, Google, announced earlier this year its plans to locate its European headquarters in Zurich.
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