Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative

Overview
Launched on February 26, 2010, the U.S. Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative aims to address the challenges facing the federal government due to the growth in redundant infrastructure investments in federal data centers, including the cost, inefficiency, unsustainablity and enormous energy consumption. Information collected from agencies in 2009 shows relatively low utilization rates of current infrastructure and limited reuse of data centers within or across agencies. The cost of operating a single data center is significant, from hardware and software costs to real estate and cooling costs.

Source

 * Federal CIO, Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (Feb. 26, 2010) (full-text).