Catching up here. I visited there as part of building The State of Carbon website (https://carbon.datahub.io/). This was much upvoted project on HackerNews back when it was first created: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16332595

Totally bogus. First off, it’s a critical dataset for tracking CO2 levels. And second, it’s just like two people huddling in a metal shipping container with a bunch of sensors on top of a mountain in Hawaii, not some kind of crazy budget.