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Google's power-hungry data centres

A remote 30-acre area of scrubland in northern Oregon hosts one of Google's largest data centres. Four air-conditioned warehouses hold tens of thousands of internet servers, with industry estimates suggesting that once the centre is running at full capacity by 2011 it could require as much as 103MW of power to run.

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