BusinessGreen: Two years ago, Facebook created the Open Compute Project to rewrite the rules for data centre efficiency, by using approaches that could be shared with other organisations.
This week, it started publishing the results of that work in the form of two public dashboards that track near real-time energy and water usage at its locations in Prineville, Oregon, and Forest City, North Carolina.
Its progress so far is notable. Facebook estimates that the "vanity-free servers" and best practices embraced...