Dayton
Business Journal
U.S. government to
close 140 data centers
by DBJ Staff
Date: Thursday, April 28, 2011
The federal government is closing 137 of its 2,100 data centers this
year as part of an effort to close 800 of the facilities by 2015.
One of the centers set for closure is the U.S. Department of Energy
data center on Mound Road in Miamisburg.
In addition to Miamisburg, two data centers in Cleveland — operated by
NASA — already were shutdown this year.
And regionally, the U.S. Department of Commerce will close a center in
Jeffersonville, Ind., and the U.S. Department of the Interior will
shutter a data center in Lexington, Ky.
There also are dozens of data centers closing at military installations
across the country by the U.S. Department of Defense. Those specific
locations are not provided by the government, so it’s not clear if any
of those are at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
The government seeks to transform how it manages its data. In doing so,
it plans to eliminate duplication and lower costs.
The U.S. Department of Justice alone will consolidate storage from 250
locations to a single online “cloud” platform.
Running large data centers carries expense. For example, the
government’s Home Health Agency data center in Rockville, Md.,
consisted of 15,000 square feet of space and racked up $1.2 million in
annual electric costs.
The government has already closed 39 data centers.
In addition to data centers, the government also is looking to
streamline its defense work, with a planned 10 percent cut in spending
on support contractors during each of the next three years.
The decision will likely impact Dayton’s bustling defense community.
Dozens of defense contractors have local operations including Boeing
Co., Computer Sciences Corp., SRA International Inc., General Dynamics
Corp., Goodrich Corp. Aircraft Wheels and Brakes Division, Science
Applications International Corp., and GE Aviation, part of General
Electric Co.
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