WASHINGTON, DC — President Obama last week opened up a new front in the war for green IT in the government, with the signing of a memorandum aimed at shrinking the federal government's stock of data centers.

As part of an overarching attempt to reduce the government's real estate costs -- as well as the energy and resource use associated with real estate -- the memorandum requires agencies to work toward a target of $3 billion in cost savings by 2015. Data centers, far from the largest slice of the government's property footprint but a huge part of its energy consumption, were singled out for special efforts. To read the full article, click

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