Psssst. Google's data center efficiency secrets. Pass them on.
First off, I'm going to say that there probably are a limited number of e-businesses in the world that rely on data centers as much as Google does. So, while the best practices that it has to share regarding its data center design and technology policy might not yield the same scale of results in your own organization, they are nonetheless worth considering if for no other reason than they might give you at least one idea for solving your own smaller-scale problems.