On January 10—Cut Your Energy Costs Day—PSEG Long Island recognized Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s (CSHL’s) ongoing sustainability initiatives with $279,000 in rebates. These efforts are part of CSHL’s Foundations for the Future expansion project. Recent improvements include the installation of new, energy-efficient heating and cooling systems, LED lighting, battery backups, and submeters throughout the Laboratory’s idyllic main campus.
“This initiative goes to the heart of our mission,” CSHL COO John Tuke says. “Science is becoming increasingly data-based. We need to store and analyze billions and billions of bits of data. It takes a lot of energy. Our sustainability projects are not only helping with the efficiency of our operations. They’re allowing for more scientific research.”
Energy efficiency is especially important for the Laboratory’s cutting-edge NeuroAI program. A single experiment has the potential to generate massive amounts of data, CSHL Assistant Professor David Klindt says.
“We’re using AI to understand how the brain and diseases work,” he explains. “This is an exciting mission, but it takes a lot of resources. It’s only sustainable if we think about where the resources are coming from and set them up in a way that’s reliable. This PSEG program is helping us achieve our sustainability goals while pushing the frontiers of science and building a better place for future generations.”
Written by: Nick Wurm, Communications Specialist | wurm@cshl.edu | 516-367-5940