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the dalles revealed
Via Nicholas Carr's Rough Type: view this blueprint for Google's massive facility at the Dalles together with commentary in March's Harper's Magazine.
I was surprised to see in the commentary that Google is planning a data center in Lithuania and a little research suggested that indeed it is.
The commentary in the article, however, is mistaken in suggesting that if Google moves to Lithuania it will be tapping into a grid that is largely nuclear.
This is unlikely. The nuclear power plant at Ignalina is ceasing operations in 2009, a closure that was a condition of Lithuania's EU accession, notwithstanding that nuclear power was the country's single biggest export. New plants are being planned, but only in the broadest sense.