Cordova has an enviable problem. On the edge of the Chugach Range rainforest, the coastal town of fewer than 3,000 people has access to abundant hydropower. Its run-of-river facilities generate, at times, more electricity than the community needs. Clay Koplin, CEO of Cordova Electric Cooperative, needed an “anchor tenant” to soak up surplus power that nobody else was buying. Enter Sam Enoka. Raised in North Pole, Enoka is the founder of California-based Greensparc, a company that developed modular, scalable computing centers. As told in this month’s article “Virtuous Circuit,” siting a distributed data server in Cordova solves Koplin’s electricity surplus problem while putting advanced cloud based technology microseconds away from Alaskan users.
