Federal data center closures by the numbers

Office of Management and Budget officials released a list of 137 data centers it says will be shuttered by Dec. 31, as part of an announcement on April 27. Thirty-nine of those have been closed already and 89 remain.

According to the plan, 16 agencies will close data centers this year. Fifty-two, or 38 percent, of the data centers on the chopping block belong to the Defense Department. As of April 21, however, DoD had only closed eight of the data centers on the list. The Interior Department plans to close 18 facilities, NASA plans to close 14 and the Agriculture Department plans to close 10.

The identified facilities are geographically dispersed and, according to Federal CIO Vivek Kundra, the closures will eliminate a total of 325,000 square feet of federal data center space.

The highest concentration of data center closures is in the Mid Atlantic. Fifteen data centers in Washington, D.C. are scheduled to close, as well as 14 in Maryland and 13 in Virginia. Locations of DoD data centers were not disclosed in the list released by OMB, however.

View Federal data centers to be closed by 2012 in a larger map

In order to meet its Dec. 31 goal, OMB must help agencies close data centers at a rate of about 12 per month through the end of 2011. As part of its 25-point plan for restructuring federal information technology, OMB aims to shutter 800 data centers by 2015.

For more: 
- see the list of data centers that have been closed and are planned to close
- listen to the April 27 OMB event

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