Climate swindle helps Berkeley Lab land another $62M in public money?

Berkeley lab gets $62M to build blazing Ethernet network - Ethernet - PC World

The $62 million comes courtesy of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and will be used to create new jobs for network and software engineers at Berkeley Lab
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Looking to build a blazing Ethernet network that will exclusively support science research, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is receiving US$62 million to develop what it calls the world's fastest computer network.
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One of the largest applications that could benefit from such a high-powered network is the study of global climate change. For example, an archive of past, present and future climate modeling data maintained by the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory contains more than 35 terabytes of data and is accessed by more than 2,500 users worldwide. However, the next-generation archive is expected to contain at least 650 terabytes, and the larger distributed worldwide archive will be between 6 petabytes to 10 petabytes.

2004: Steven Chu named director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

The University of California Board of Regents has named Nobel laureate Steven Chu, professor of physics and applied physics, as director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.