right on :tup:
Nm
“It would bring about 125 jobs, paying an average of $65,000 dollars a year.”
http://www.wivb.com/dpp/news/yahoo_may_build_data_center_in_wny_090519
truthfully they would probably low 20s an hour…not to mention data center managers and what not could realistically make 150k.
ryanmcell would be a good person to post up about datacenter staffing…
Even with a few managers making 150k that still leaves a lot of good paying jobs (for low cost of living WNY anyway) to get to an average of 65k for 125 people. To put it another way, for every 150k manager there is easily a 10-$12/hr low level guy to offset him in the average.
:tup: to this project. Hopefully it actually happens, unlike the Peace Bridge, Adelphia’s downtown project, that inner harbor waterpark, the removal of the skyway and the Niagara Aquarium.
They would have cheap cooling costs. Just open the door to the building in the winter.
Optimum humidity would an issue. 
Psh…servers can get wet.
Just put them in a big box of snow
I wonder how many positions will be filled before they even start posting up positions for the public.
I am sure you will know when they post up their openings for on-call sanitation engineer.
:lol:
:bigclap:
Some I’m sure, using it as a means to a promotion, but not nearly as many if they were building it somewhere else. Not a lot of current yahoo employees are going to run to HR saying, “oooh, oooh, I wanna move to BUFFALO!”.
Maybe they are getting sick of 70+ temperatures all year in Sunnyvale and want to take up skiing?
125 jobs seem rather steep as I’d say between critical staff, myself, and our contractors I bet we don’t even touch 25 for a site almost 3x as large.
For example…
Our newest facility will have:
1 Critical Infrastructure Manager (Elec)
1 Assistant CIM
1 Essential Infrastructure Manager (Mech)
1 Assistant EIM
1 Property Manager
1 Assistant PM
1 Project Engineer (which we already have 2 of so no need for new staffing)
1 Porter
2 Foremans
Maybe half a dozen unioned contractors for elec/mech.
Cleaning staff - maybe 3-4
Security team - 4-5
That of course is to run the building. I’m sure Yahoo would bring in some type of tech ops team, noc team (which we do ourselves) and network guys to maintain all the IT equipment.
A good elec/mech manager could easily get 150k here, but more realistically especially in WNY I’d say 100. There are a lot of positions most people overlook, you have the critical portion with all the elec/mech side, the IT side, but you also have the maintenence side… landscaping, custodial, security, etc.
Hope it works out, could be some good opportunities for some people up there.
http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/719473.html
Seems like Yahoo got a hell of a deal.
I wonder where you apply…
I still say they shoulda put it closer to / in downtown.
Besides the low-cost power, the Lockport IDA is providing Yahoo! with a 20-year abatement of county and state sales taxes on equipment and a 20-year phased payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) to replace property taxes. Yahoo! will pay nothing for the first 10 years, 20 percent of its assessed value for the next two, 40 percent for the next two, 60 percent for the next two, 80 percent for the next two, and then 100 percent for the last two.
Yeah, I’d say that’s a hell of a deal. Oh well, not like the property was generating much in taxes before anyway, and at least they’re bringing in some real jobs.
EDIT: Fuck downtown. Yeah, try and put it down there like the casino so Buffalo can sue because they want the casino, then turn around and sue to stop it. While the Buffalo Conservation Board sues because some grain mill might have to be knocked down. Yahoo put it somewhere that they know it will get built. Lockport is so desperate for jobs they’d bulldoze every historic building and kill a couple endangered species if Yahoo asked them to.
lol, valid point. I’d just like to see more jobs DT. Centering it near our colleges would be conveneint as well, they could cater to new graduates.
I’m not a candidate for the jobs there, but being in lockport would be a deterrent for me.
The best part is no one from lockport will get a job maybe sweeping floors?
Where downtown would you put a giant datacenter?
Not to mention bringing in fiber/power is a nightmare downtown.