Alaska Business Magazine | May 2026
- May 12
- 1 min read
Alaska Business Magazine's 2026 Innovators Hall of Fame features three inductees doing important work — and one of them helped put Greensparc's work in Cordova on the map.
Clay Koplin, CEO of Cordova Electric Cooperative, is recognized this year for transforming Cordova's grid into one of the most reliable in Alaska, with roughly 85% of the community's power now coming from hydropower. The feature notes that as part of his doctoral research on how data infrastructure and electric grids can work together, Koplin invited Greensparc to install a modular 150 kW data center inside the cooperative's Humpback Creek hydroelectric facility in 2024.
That partnership is exactly what Greensparc's model is built for — excess renewable energy, existing infrastructure, a utility willing to think beyond the conventional customer base.
Congratulations to Clay Koplin, Doug Goering, and Tom Marsik on this recognition. Alaska is fortunate to have people solving its hardest problems from the inside.