Can mac Mini boot on power up?

We have 18 mac mini's that we would like to have boot up on power on. Is this possible?
Thanks
mac mini   Mac OS X (10.4)  

We had as many PC's in a simular situation that would power down (cut the power) at night and boot up and run their program when the power was restored without any issues with drive damage and data loss. Do you think this would actually damage the mac mini drives? These computers are being used in a limited kiosk way where the users do not do anything but play videos via a mouse click on a Macromind Director program. We wanted the cumputers to be off at night. They run with no keyboards and the mouse control is locked down so visitors using them can not shut them down, which means we can't either. We can however remotely power them off and on via a schedule that runs all our AV equipment.
G5   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

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    28.04.14 09:56:03,383 WindowServer[80]: Display 0x764bdc00: Unit 0; ColorProfile { 2, "SDM-HS74"}; TransferFormula (1.000000, 1.000000, 1.000000)
    28.04.14 09:56:03,397 WindowServer[80]: Display 0x764bdc00: Unit 0; ColorProfile { 2, "SDM-HS74"}; TransferFormula (1.000000, 1.000000, 1.000000)
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    28.04.14 09:56:03,785 com.apple.SecurityServer[25]: Session 100004 created
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    28.04.14 09:56:33,494 soagent[217]: No active accounts, killing soagent in 10 seconds
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