Both retain the 'coop' structure, adopted from chicken coops that channel hot air into the upper area of the building.

There are some similarities between the two designs, but some differences as well. The similarity shouldn't be too surprising, since one of the Yahoo data center executives who worked on the Yahoo Lockport project, Scott Noteboom, now is a leader of the data center team at Apple. That's an image of the Yahoo 'Computing Coop' data center in Lockport, New York. Let's see, where have we seen something like that before. It's a long, rectangular structure with a sloped roof with a peak in the center. What does this Apple facility look like? Hop over to Apple Insider for a quick look at the photos, and then come back. This is similar to the approach the company has taken in Prineville, Oregon, where a small structure was deployed quickly, with two larger buildings to follow.

'As the project site was still being finalized, the company asked for permission to begin work on an initial, aproximately 20,000-square-foot structure to get head start on the construction project,' AppleInsider reports. After a drive-by shed little light, the site has obtained some aerial photos and one close-up of a new structure on the Apple site.

Apple Insider has been working hard to unearth information about the Apple data center project in Reno, Nevada.

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