Fusion centers don’t find terrorists, filled with ‘crap’ that violates privacy
After 9/11, in the name of intelligence sharing to fight terrorism, 77 fusion centers popped up across the USA. Read more
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Cloud centers bring high-tech flash but not many jobs to beaten-down towns (Michael S. Rosenwald/Washington Post)
Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
Cloud centers bring high-tech flash but not many jobs to beaten-down towns — MAIDEN, N.C. — Here in this once-thriving town of furniture makers and textile mills, where Main Street businesses have vanished, nearby fast-food joints have closed and unemployment is rampant …
GAO sees no compelling reason to restrict Cloud data centers to U.S. locations
Top Priority Sector:
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In a May 2011 solicitation for Cloud providers – particularly for email services – the General Services Administration (GSA) found itself in an argument with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) over whether the data centers that would provide such Cloud services to the federal government could be located outside the United States.
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Google Details Electricity Usage of Its Data Centers (James Glanz/New York Times)
James Glanz / New York Times:
Google Details Electricity Usage of Its Data Centers — Google released what was once among its most closely guarded secrets on Thursday: how much electricity its enormous computing facilities consume. — The company said that its data centers continuously drew almost 260 million watts …