Why the US Government has so many data centers
Sean Donelan
sean at donelan.com
Mon Mar 14 19:19:16 UTC 2016
On Mon, 14 Mar 2016, George Metz wrote:
> That's an inaccurate cost savings though most likely; it probably doesn't
Politicians and sales people with inaccurate cost savings. Say it isn't
so.
If you think these are $100 million dollar "data centers," maybe a few
billion dollars in cost savings is possible over 10 years. But if a
majority of the "data centers" are a single server in a room, the
cost savings of moving it to a different room may not save billions of
dollars. But no one will remember. Prediction, there will be a glowing
report in a year or so about the huge cost savings, and then a couple
years later will be an Inspector General report about problems counting
things.
If that's what taxpayers want, that's what they'll get.
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