You’d probably need to do this with an AC-DC-AC transformer to also get the circuit converted to the 50hz cycle European power systems use, but it’d just be a waste because of the power losses involved (not to mention the expense of the transformers). Also, a typical 15A circuit in a home will handle ~1.8kw of sustained load, so as long as you can dedicate a circuit to such a rig, you’d be fine.
You probably have a few such sockets around. Not the UK or eu form factor but 240v at least. Look at how your dryer or AC plugs into the wall and you'll see something different to the usual plugs.
There are definitely 240V for higher power usage (because they will need half the current for the same power with double voltage, and current (current density, technically) is what causes joule heating and melts wires/ starts fires.
The sockets will be incompatible with Euro or UK sockets. You could change the socket to a euro socket, bit the frequencies will be wrong for euro or uk devices (60Hz in the us, 50 in europe & UK.) This may or may not be important depending on what you're hooking up to it (understand that impedance and other electrical things are a function of frequency). The safest option would be to get something to convert the power (there seen to be products to do that) and put _that_ behind the Euro or UK outlets.
