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Obama Administration Closing Recently Opened Datacenters

Posted by timothy on from the breaking-eggs-for-omelet-stimulus dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After quadrupling the number of government datacenters over his first three years, Obama's Administration is reversing course and closing the most recently opened datacenters. With one datacenter reportedly the size of three football fields, my question is what happens to all those recently purchased servers? Will the government hold a server fire sale? Count me in!"

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  1. Timing... by BWJones · · Score: 4, Informative

    The wording of this post makes it seem as though the data centers were initiated via policies of the Obama administration. However, the reality is that the data center expansion occurred during the policy of the previous Bush administration with funding requested in 2006, approved in 2007 and implementation initiated in 2008 a full year before the Obama administration took office. The Obama administration approved the continuation of the policy in 2009 and 2010 and are currently altering the data center strategy.

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    1. Re:Timing... by Jeremy+Erwin · · Score: 1, Informative

      We are USA, we are individuals coming together for a common goal, to live free from oppression and tyranny. Yet governanced by the majority (supposed to be). Remember your individuality before you "tow the line".

      All right! Let's start stringing together propagandistic boilerplate into poorly constructed, meaningless sentences!

    2. Re:Timing... by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 1, Informative

      make healthcare affordable enough that you don't need the government

      No government means no regulation. That leaves the medical industry to voluntarily reduce prices and profits and not engage in anti-competitive behavior. Given the behavior of the medical industry these last decades, do you really believe that will happen? Bottom line, the only way to MAKE healthcare affordable is through the government.