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103 viewsNational Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Director Mark Serreze and Coolerado founder and chief scientist Valeriy Maisotsenko at the Green Data Center open house on May 4, 2012 in Boulder, Colorado. Maisotsenko invented the data center's new cooling technology that uses 90 percent less energy than traditional air conditioning. —Credit: Natasha Vizcarra/NSIDC
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102 viewsNational Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) staff Rich Lutes examines an old data storage robot hand as fellow staff Jeff Groth looks on. The robot hand was decommissioned and the data tape library converted to smaller space-efficient storage to make way for the Green Data Center' s new, energy-saving cooling units. —Credit: Natasha Vizcarra/NSIDC
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100 viewsNational Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Program Manager Ronald Weaver shows guests air vents, which allow warm air from the data center to escape outdoors, at the Green Data Center open house on May 4, 2012 in Boulder, Colorado. —Credit: Kristin Bjornsen/CIRES
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100 viewsU.S. Representative Jared Polis looks on as National Snow and Ice Data Center Technical Services Manager David Gallaher flips a ceremonial switch for the Green Data Center on May 4, 2012 in Boulder, Colorado. —Credit: Natasha Vizcarra/NSIDC
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92 viewsPanels in the solar array absorb the sunshine on the roof of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). Guests of the NSIDC Green Data Center open house received tours of the energy-saving facilities on May 4, 2012. —Credit: Kristin Bjornsen/CIRES
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90 viewsSupplies for the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Green Data Center were lifted by crane onto the roof where workers installed a solar array aimed at reducing energy consumption for data center cooling by more than 90 percent. —Credit: Ron Weaver/NSIDC
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90 viewsRonald Weaver (fifth from left) accepts an award for the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) with representatives of the RMH Group, an engineering consulting firm, on May 14, 2012 in Santa Clara, California. The Uptime Institute conferred the two organizations with the 2012 Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Award for the Green Data Center project, an on-budget retrofit project which reduced the data center's energy use by 90 percent. Weaver is Principal Investigator and Manager of the NASA Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) at NSIDC. --Credit: Uptime Institute
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84 viewsNational Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Program Manager Ron Weaver and NSIDC Director Mark Serreze at the Green Data Center open house on May 4, 2012 in Boulder, Colorado.—Credit: Natasha Vizcarra/NSIDC
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83 viewsSupplies for the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Green Data Center sit ready to be lifted to the roof for installation. —Credit: Ron Weaver/NSIDC
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77 viewsNational Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Technical Services Manager David Gallaher displays cooling unit features during construction of the NSIDC Green Data Center. The evaporative units reduce cooling energy by more than 90 percent.
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