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Feds Now Plans To Close 1,200 Data Centers

Posted by timothy on from the hand-the-keys-to-carl-malamud dept.

1sockchuck writes "The U.S. government now expects to shutter at least 1,200 data centers by the end of 2015 in its data center consolidation project. That's about 40 percent of the IT facilities identified in the latest update from federal CIO Steven VanRoekel. The number of government data centers has grown steadily — jumping from 1,100 to 2,094 and now to 3,133 — as the Obama administration has identified more facilities than expected, and expanded the initiative to target telecom closets. The CIO's office says it is on track to close 525 facilities by the end of this year, and has published a list of data centers targeted for closure."

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  1. Figures by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Under a Republican administration government grows exponentially and it takes a Democratic president to get things back under control.

    1. Re:Figures by glodime · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I'm no Obama supporter.
      He has expanded on the bad that Bush got started.
      He's OK with ignoring due process for Citizens of the USA (which I think should be extended to all people that the USA's government agencies accuse of a crime).
      He lent money to insolvent corporations without a penalty rate or equity participation but would not consider lending or granting funds to insolvent or solvent but illiquid individuals during a credit freeze.
      His staff was informing corporate board members of the about to be announced free money that was going to be handed to them.
      He gave up until recently on filling the vacant Fed Board position after a little push back initially (when the Fed could have saved many people from extended unemployment)
      He hasn't pushed for effective regulations on financial leverage and size of financial intermediaries.
      He hasn't pushed for easier formation of Mutual financial intermediaries.
      He ignored the unemployment epidemic after the initial stimulus bill.
      He never publicly entertained a single payer health care system.

      But he still seems better suited to run the country than his predecessor or hopeful successors now in Iowa.

  2. Re:FAA by NetRanger · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Every plane registered is stored there, the logistics center is there, and their academy is located there too.

    Why did OKC reach this prominence? Of all the lower 48 states, it has the best flying weather for most of the year.

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    -- We live in a world where lemonade is artificial and soap has real lemon.
  3. Re:I work on this effort and it's horribly misguid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Guy's dead on. I see it, too. For extra fun, sometimes "closing" a data center means throwing away all the working equipment and buying completely new equipment to replace it in a different data center. I have no earthly idea how they think they're going to save any money. They just get a metric in their head and run with it. Fewer data centers is better, no matter what, right?