The Energy Department’s July 2011 inventory of its data centers neglected to include more than 500 centers managed by contractors, the department’s internal auditor said Thursday.
Energy told the Office of Management and Budget that month it was operating only 58 federal data centers, excluding at least 520 contractor-operated centers totaling 314,000 square feet, the department’s Inspector General Gregory Friedman said in the report.
“We noted that omissions of contractor-operated data centers continued despite OMB’s request that the department resubmit an updated and complete final inventory prior to Dec. 31, 2010,” the audit said.
The 520 uncounted facilities all meet an old OMB definition that included only data centers larger than 500 square feet, Rick Hass, Energy's deputy inspector general, told Nextgov.
In October 2011, the Obama administration expanded the definition of data centers to also include everything from smaller centers down to server closets. Under the new definition, the number of uncounted data centers at Energy could be significantly larger.
Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel expects to save $5 billion dollars by closing and consolidating government data centers. Read More
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