Denver Judge Blocks NCAR Breakup Over Process Flaws and Brain Drain

A federal judge in Denver issued a 38-page injunction blocking the federal government’s plan to divest NCAR’s Wyoming-based supercomputing center and hand it to the University of Wyoming, ruling NSF’s decision flawed and likely to harm operations. The move, framed by UCAR as politically motivated retaliation, risks expert losses and disruption to atmospheric research, prompting continued litigation while the center’s operations are protected for now.