Shutting Down Duplicative Data Centers

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Shutting Down Duplicative Data Centers
Posted by Jeffrey Zients on July 20, 2011 at 11:37 AM EDT

Just as our cell phones and computers have gotten progressively more efficient over the past decade, so too have data servers. However, the government has not taken advantage of the increasing efficiency of data storage. Rather than follow the private sector's lead of shrinking the size and number of the facilities used to house the computers that store their data, agencies have gone in the opposite direction.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/07/ ... ta-centers