The
costly NYS data center move does not compute!It’s as plain as day. Relocating the state’s four data centers from Albany to Utica would waste millions of tax dollars.
This ill-advised plan under the prior administration would cost taxpayers an estimated $100 million.
The data centers are currently located in Albany to best serve its primary users, including the majority of state agencies, their offices and the capital region. Yet, in the waning days of the Pataki administration a scheme was devised to relocate the data centers to Utica, more than 100 miles away. No other state in the country has located its consolidated data center outside the area of the state capital. The relocation proposal was nothing more than geographic patronage at taxpayer expense.
Albany already has the infrastructure in place to support the data center with more than 1,000 miles of fiber optic cable. The cost of constructing such a system in Utica would be far more expensive than the cost of adding to Albany’s already significant fiber optic infrastructure.
The relocation proposal just does not compute!
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