1. A computer-implemented method for determining one or more locations to place virtual resource instances in a networked computing environment, comprising: parsing, in response to a receipt of a request for a virtual resource instance on a computer memory medium in the networked computing environment, email addresses of a set of intended users included in a set of network characteristics associated with the request for information that indicates a physical location of each of the set of intended end users; analyzing, using at least one computer device, the set of network characteristics for each of the set of intended end users based on the physical location indicated by the parsing of an email address of each of the set of intended end users to get a set of potential data centers having relative proximity to the set of intended end users in which the virtual resource instance can be provisioned; calculating, using the at least one computer device, a relative efficiency score each of the set of intended end users and the set of potential data centers based on the physical location of each of the set of intended end users; calculating, using the at least one computer device, a total efficiency score for each of the set of potential data centers based on the relative efficiency scores; selecting a particular data center from the set of potential data centers based on the total efficiency scores; and provisioning the virtual resource instance in the particular data center.