Very intresting for people interested in web hosting and datacenters. DataCenterKnowledge compiled a FAQ of known facts about Google Datacenters. Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.

The 3 page article is definitely a must read … a lot of interesting content. Here’s an excerpt (I removed the details about each bullet … go and read it on datacenter knowledge).

How does Google decide where to build its data centers? Here are the factors that are known to influence Google’s data center site location process:

• The availability of large volumes of cheap electricity to power the data centers
• The presence of a large supply of water to support the chillers and water towers used to cool Google’s data centers.
• Distance to other Google data centers.
• Tax incentives.