“On April 6 and 7, GSA, the CIO Council, and the Information Technology Industry Council co-hosted a virtual, two-day summit focused on highlighting and celebrating the energy, environment, and infrastructure benefits that result from a transition from government-owned data centers to commercially-owned facilities, cloud computing, or software-as-a-service. Speakers explored ways in which the federal government could reach its sustainability goals established under President Biden’s 2021 Executive Order on Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability. GSA’s Office of Government-wide Policy Associate Administraror Krystal Brumfield remotely welcomed more than 500 attendees and reaffirmed GSA’s commitment to optimizing and consolidating thousands of federally owned data centers, ranging from small server closets to large stand-alone facilities...” “In the two years since GSA hosted the Cloud and Infrastructure Summit, ‘federal agencies have made much progress with consolidating data centers, moving to the cloud, leveraging commercial services, or otherwise modernizing their IT infrastructure,’ said Brumfield. ‘By making some purposeful changes – as well as some hard decisions – about the data centers that we own and operate as federal agencies, we can help the government take a big leap forward in its transition to clean, zero-emission, and renewable technologies,’ she added. GSA’s chief sustainability officer and director of the Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings Kevin Kampschroer also spoke at the event in an opening keynote, noting ‘data centers in the U.S. consume more electricity than the entire US federal government.  Aligning standards, sharing facilities, improving data center building operations, and increasing sophistication in measuring performance are all leading the government to moving to sustainable environments.’ Reflecting on the summit, ‘I am impressed with the quality, breadth and depth of the presentations, and more importantly, the engagement and knowledge of the people imparting their hard won wisdom,’ he said...” Read the full blog post here. Source: Data Center Sustainability Summit 2022 Recap: IT Modernization and Green Tech – April 15, 2022. GSA.