Googling Yourself writes "Harpers magazine is publishing a blueprint of Google's new data center at The Dalles, Oregon where they will be tapping into some of the cheapest electricity in North America. Although the plans show three 68,680-square-foot storage buildings, only two of the buildings have been constructed so far. Based on a projected industry standard of 500 watts per square foot, the Dalles plant can be expected to use 103 megawatts of electricity. Google's server farm represents a new phase in the transformation of the Columbia River over the past half-century as the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), a federal agency that sells electricity from thirty-one dams and one nuclear reactor plant, lures high energy consuming industries to the region. Across the street from the Google data center is an example the last generation of high energy consumers — a Northwest Aluminum smelter that once used 85 megawatts but is now decommissioned and is being dismantled for scrap. Microsoft, Yahoo, and Ask.com are also planning data centers on the Columbia River."
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