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Sure, it’s been just a few months since the National Security Agency asked for a $900 million supercomputing complex](NSA wants $896.5 million to build new supercomputing complex) - you know, to help out with all that internet wiretapping. But concern about deficit spending will mean shuttering 800 *other *federal data centers in the US, or 40 percent of total government capacity. The closures are part of a larger push toward greater efficiency and consolidation, with an estimated savings of $3 billion a year; moving services to the cloud will mean more savings in licensing fees and infrastructure. Single-digit savings might sound like chump change when you realize the federal information technology budget runs around $80 billion a year, but hey, it’s a start, right?US federal government to close 800 data centers, walk into the cloud originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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