A longtime Fairbanks resident and state leader, Rogers served for seven years as the UA system's finance vice president, four years in the Alaska State House and eight years as a member of the UA Board of Regents, with three of those years as chair.
​
A former UAF student, he attended Trinity College and Brown University before receiving his master's degree in public administration from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In 1996, Rogers formed Information Insights, an economic and public policy consulting firm, serving as principal consultant and chief financial officer.
Rogers has served as chair of the UArctic Board of Governors, The Nature Conservancy Alaska Trustees and the Great Northwest Athletic Conference CEO board, as well as a member of numerous community and state organizations including the Foraker Group Governance Board, the Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, the Fairbanks Downtown Rotary and several others.
Bridging the Digital Divide:
In Alaska and the World's Remote Communities
WHITE PAPER, EDGE DATA CENTER, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, EMERGING TRENDS, MICROGRID
​Cordova, Alaska is pioneering a sustainable solution to the growing demand for data infrastructure by implementing edge data centers integrated with renewable microgrids. This innovative approach developed by Cordova Electric Cooperative and Greensparc offers reduced costs, improved performance, and environmental benefits, potentially serving as a model for remote communities worldwide to bridge the digital divide while leveraging clean energy resources.​​
​
CEC's key technology partner for deployment of the 150 kW modular edge data center, Greensparc, is a San Francisco company whose mission is delivering data services to the world’s data disenfranchised in the most efficient and sustainable manner possible.
Download the white paper here.
