Photos: GE's LEED Platinum data center

By Jason Hiner // August 19, 2011, 12:54 AM PST // jasonhiner

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GE's LEED Platinum data center

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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Grand opening of GE's new LEED Platinum data center

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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GE Louisville has a distinguished history in IT

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GE's historic Univac computer in Louisville

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Building where the GE data center is located

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LEED Platinum plaque at data center entrance

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Hand scanner and "man trap" to secure access to data center

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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Close up of the hand scanner

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Security for GE data center

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Looking down the data center's main row

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Details of the main data center

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Open cabinet in main data center

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Room to expand the data center

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Work space to accomodate flexible IT teams

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Close up of work area for IT pros in the data center

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Three power grid feeds for the data center

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Console for managing the data center's power systems

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Details on UPS backup in the data center

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Control system for UPS backup

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UPS backup, using GE's own products

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Intro to data center's cooling systems

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Two 27,000 gallon storage tanks for cooling fluid

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Intro to battery backups

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Close up of battery backups

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GE's own eco-friendly battery backup products (coming soon)

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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's LEED Platinum data center

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

About Jason Hiner

Jason Hiner is Global Editor in Chief of TechRepublic and Global Long Form Editor of ZDNet. He's co-author of the book, Follow the Geeks.

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