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    General Electric's Adrian Shankln, Global Data Center Manager, shows off one of the racks of new high density servers in GE's $48 million state-of-the-art data center -- one of the first in the world with LEED Platinum certification. This gallery includes photos from the grand opening on August 18, 2011 in Louisville, Kentucky.

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    Alan Kocsi, CIO of GE Appliances & Lighting, kicks off the program to officially open GE's new LEED Platinum data center in Louisville, Kentucky.

     

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    Lance Weaver, CTO of GE Appliances & Lighting, scans his hand (and badge) before entering the "man trap," which only allows one person to enter the data center at a time, to prevent "tailgaiting" (someone politely holding the door for a potential intruder).  

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    Congressman John Yarmuth (left) and Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer (center) get a rundown on the new data center from Jim Campbell, CEO of GE Appliances & Lighting.  

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GE recently built a $48 million state-of-the-art data center, one of the first in the world with LEED Platinum certification. Here are photos from the grand opening on August 18, 2011 in Louisville, Kentucky.

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General Electric's Adrian Shankln, Global Data Center Manager, shows off one of the racks of new high density servers in GE's $48 million state-of-the-art data center -- one of the first in the world with LEED Platinum certification. This gallery includes photos from the grand opening on August 18, 2011 in Louisville, Kentucky.

Also read: GE thumbs its nose at outsourcing, builds world-class data center

Photo credit: General Electric

 

 

Published: August 22, 2011 -- 06:41 GMT (23:41 PDT)

Caption by: Jason Hiner

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