The property includes a 300,000 square foot existing structure on 24.3 acres of land, with approval to add a 38,000 square foot expansion. The building includes a three-story office area and a warehouse with a 35-foot ceiling. Tender Heart Treasures, which makes gifts and home decor products, will vacate the building in January when it moves to another location, according to the Omaha World-Herald.

In August Yahoo applied for tax incentives under the Nebraska Super Advantage program, which requires a minimum investment of $100 million and the creation of at least 50 high-salary jobs paying a minimum average salary of $68,700. The filing revealed that the project would be in La Vista, a fast-growing Omaha suburb whose corporate residents include HP and eBay’s Paypal unit, which employs about 2,000 workers at a call center not far from the new Yahoo site.

Omaha was recently named one of the most affordable U.S. cities to operate a data center by The Boyd Company, with an annual operating expense of $12.9 million, less than half the cost of operating a similar facility in New York.

To [cut] costs, AOL will turn all their websites off for 23 hours per day.

AOL is getting ready to have major layoffs again. After a so so report card rumor has it that they are selling their MTC & DTC data centers and will be contracting all of the services out to Emcor. There are way too many managers and a lot of them are expected to get laid off. After attending meetings it appears that upper management has finally realized they are way too many managers in technologies and that it would be better to contract central config, asset management, IPE's and SI.Operations is going to take a big hit.

MTC and DTC are datacenters based in Manassas, Va., and the vicinity of Dulles Airport, respectively, near AOL's former Northern Virginia headquarters. Emcor is, as best we can tell, a facilities and construction manager better known for doing the wiring on datacenters than running a network operations center. It's not clear how AOL's websites will fare during a transition to a new, inexperienced Web host. AOL employees: You've got layoffs. AOL users; You've got fail!

(Photo of AOL server farm via KK)

With grand entries and vaulted ceilings, the homes speak to high, perhaps unrealistic, hopes. Developers originally asked for around $400,000. They recently cut prices 25%. Few of the homes have sold; dozens remain empty, and poured foundations have been left to the weeds.

The problem is that the 460,000-sq. ft. facility recently opened by Microsoft only employs forty people, and even if those forty create two or three more jobs in town, that still amounts to work for only two percent of Quincy's tiny population. All the real jobs that the datacenters enable will go to urban centers like Seattle, just like the cheap electricity from the Grand Coulee Dam does. What jobs will be created? More of the same: Cooling and air conditioning technicians. Because one thing that apple-packing and server-packing have in common is the need to stay cool during the blistering summers. (Photo by AP/Shannon Dininny)

Data Center Knowledge has already identified some of Heiliger's investments: new multimillion-dollar datacenters are going up in Ashburn, Va. and Santa Clara, and Rackable, a maker of servers, is receiving a large chunk of Facebook's hardware budget.

But I'm more amused by the money Heiliger didn't spend. On his honeymoon, that is. In 2004, he and his fiancée Germaine Yokoyama hit up wedding guests to pay for a trip to Venice.

(Photo by Jonathan Heiliger)

Rackspace's promise of 100 percent uptime just doesn't mean that much anymore, Karp explained. He said after recent innovations, it has become far cheaper for startups to protect themselves from downtime by buying twice as many servers as they'll ever need rather than to go with managed hosting. If half of them suddenly fail, so what?

Some services and sites have known this for a while, but it's only now that Rackspace is reeling. Why? One disastrous side effect of the truck crash that caused Rackspace meltdown last fall, is that the downtime voided many clients' contracts. Under the terms of their agreements, they're now free to cancel service and go elsewhere.

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Facebook, he told employees, will spend $200 million on capital expenditures in 2008. That's a lot of servers, switches, and other datacenter equipment. And it means Facebook's negative cash flow will swell to $150 million for 2008 alone. There goes nearly half of the $300 million Facebook has raised. Maybe Facebook should start charging for employee meals after all.

Rackspace is falling apart again. To my understanding, the whole infrastructure has failed and they now have emergency generators and chillers for the past two or three weeks in the parking lot. This must be vary bad for the remaining customers to go through this again and again, not to mention that Rackspace is not a true redundancy A-B side as they advertise to the public. This company is a bad investment!

(Photo by kylemac)