Even after a decade of closings and consolidations, the agencies together still operated more than 1,700 data centers. Image: Nakun/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffAgencies continue to close data centers and generally are achieved the savings that were projected, the GAO has said, while also again urging that they carry out 16 of its recommendations that remain pending.
A report said that the 24 Cabinet departments and largest independent agencies closed 58 data centers in fiscal 2021 and in 2022 they closed or were on track to close another 78. Of those, 22 achieved their projected savings and cost avoidances of more than $600 million in the former year—the exceptions, NASA and VA, fell just short—and savings of more than $300 million were projected for the latter; over the 10 years of the initiative the total is above $6.6 billion, it said.
It said that seven of them now do not have any agency-owned data centers or their remaining centers are exempted under OMB policies. However, of the remainder, several still have not met goals in areas such as energy savings and underutilized servers.
It said that even after a decade of closings and consolidations, the agencies together still operated more than 1,700 data centers, with DoD accounting for the largest number, more than 600. It plans to close 31 of them, GAO said.
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