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Comment by hayleox | Hacker News Reader

Anyone know what part of the state the datacenters are located in? Or are they just all over the place?

EDIT: Apparently the facilities are in a couple townships around Columbus (which is in the dead center of the state). Neat. http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2015/05/29/...

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For map nerds!

40.103706, -83.199873 in Dublin

40.061121, -83.134998 (originally rumored to be at a different, nearby site at 40.053217, -83.127493) in Hilliard

40.094640, -82.751469 in New Albany

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- https://www.google.com/maps/search/40.103706,%20-83.199873

- https://www.google.com/maps/search/40.061121,%20-83.134998

- https://www.google.com/maps/search/40.094640,%20-82.751469

All 3 points: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/40.103706,+-83.199873/40.061...

Zooming in with satellite view shows that all three sites seem to not only have identically sized/shaped buildings, but they're also oriented the same way (long axis running east/west). Any theories on why? Something to do with cooling perhaps?

According to the Alliance to Save Energy, an east-west orientation "maximizes daylight, while minimizing unwanted heat losses and gains" [1]

[1] http://www.ase.org/resources/model-commercial-building-effic...

Yep, suburbs and surrounding cities of my hometown, Columbus, OH. I've been hearing rumors of this here and there for a year now. Glad to see it happening.

Ooh, you're good at this. Where are the rest of them? I like to keep my DC map accurate, but AWS is hard to find.

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