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111 viewsNational Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Director Mark Serreze speaks at the Green Data Center open house on May 4, 2012. —Credit: Kristin Bjornsen/CIRES
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111 viewsNational Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Technical Services Manager David Gallaher explains to U.S. Representative Jared Polis (in yellow shirt) and other guests how the Green Data Center saves energy, on May 4, 2012 in Boulder, Colorado. —Credit: Natasha Vizcarra/NSIDC —Credit: Natasha Vizcarra/NSIDC
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107 viewsNational Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Technical Services Manager David Gallaher speaks at the Green Data Center open house on May 4, 2012. —Credit: Kristin Bjornsen/CIRES
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107 viewsNational Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Technical Services Manager David Gallaher at the Green Data Center open house on May 4, 2012. —Credit: Natasha Vizcarra/NSIDC
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106 viewsWorkers receive metal racks from a crane on the roof of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). Part of the Green Data Center project, a solar array on the roof reduced energy consumption. —Credit: Ron Weaver/NSIDC
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105 viewsNational Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Technical Services Manager David Gallaher explains to U.S. Representative Jared Polis (in yellow shirt) and other guests how the Green Data Center saves energy, on May 4, 2012 in Boulder, Colorado. —Credit: Natasha Vizcarra/NSIDC
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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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101 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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93 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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92 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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