Comment Re:Moisture? (Score 3, Informative) 62
You can take a look at their official page. http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/about/initiatives/data-center-west.cfm
The tour video and text talk about plants outside filtering. The video around 3 minutes, shows additional filtering inside.
I suspect prevailing winds will really screw with the site cooling.
The "Virtual tour" has more details than the rest. Nothing about humidity.
Their security seems odd. They talk about the security being very strict. The video shows the inside of each "pod" to be open to the common hot air area in the upper part of the roof. So they have security, but you can get around it by not going through the doors. {sigh}
I never got the idea of sticking square boxes in a round hole. They're wasting a lot of good real estate by leaving all that extra space between the servers.
It seems like it was drawn up with an ideal world in mind, which usually doesn't translate well to the real world.