Facebook's Prineville datacenter is aligned to capture prevailing winds: http://www.facebook.com/prinevilleDataCenter http://www.facebook.com/prinevilleDataCen

Facebook's Prineville datacenter is aligned to capture prevailing winds: http://www.facebook.com/prinevilleDataCenter http://www.facebook.com/prinevilleDataCenter Somewhere I had whitepapers from the Open Data Center Initiative which did touch on some of the issues you mentioned. http://www.opendatacenteralliance.org/ http://www.opendatacenteralliance.org/ is the alliance page, but, requires membership, has a few whitepapers and webcasts available.