The biggest of these data factories are packed with 400, 000 servers and consume 250 megawatts of power, half the output of a small nuclear power plant.
The four-country replacement project has strong Latvian support, but Poland is lukewarm and Estonia is considering a small nuclear-power plant of its own if the joint one falls through.
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Mr Morgan said that since the jobs at Anglesey Aluminium can only therefore be saved by having a specific and reliable energy source, the assembly government, the company, and the Department of Trade and Industry are looking at the option of building a small to medium sized power plant.
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Workers struggled to contain a burning reactor at the Fukushima nuclear-power plant as the site emitted small but worrying amounts of radiation.
My story Sunday saying that the danger from radiation in Japan will remain small even if things at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant go horribly wrong generated a lot of response.
Since the particulates travel great distances before they are washed out, even this small dose is not a function of distance from the power plant, but is randomized geographically.
North Korea has reprocessed enough plutonium from a nuclear power plant to build as many as a dozen small nuclear explosives, outside analysts estimate.
This privately held firm may be small, but it managed to get a natural-gas-fired power plant completed in New York City in 2006.
The nuclear power plant's cooling towers still loom over the farms and small towns that line Pennsylvania's Susquehanna River.
The power plant has been shut down since this winter, when a small amount of radioactive gas escaped from a steam generator during a water leak.
Part of the rationale for big government-sponsored rebates on what is an otherwise uneconomic source of power is the strategic benefit of distributing small-scale power generation across the landscape rather than focusing it in a hulking coal or nuclear plant.
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