[willpower101]

I'd venture a guess that the solar energy provided wouldn't even cover a quarter of the energy cost required to cool a data center.

I'd go on to say that the energy coefficient between 35 Deg N and 55 Deg N probably isn't enough to offset the equation significantly.

As such I think that removing heat more efficiently via naturally cold climates would have a greater impact on bottom line. Check out wikileaks cave-based data centers in old Swedish nuclear bunkers. http://bitshare.tumblr.com/post/2383169988/the-wikileaks-ser... (Sweden's bandwidth to the rest of the world also blows ours away.)