Washington state’s new data center: wait just a minute!

State Rep. Reuven Carlyle calls the Department of Information Services’ decision to build a new data center in Olympia a few blocks from the Capitol Campus "shocking in its lack of quality research, new data, national context, or insight into technology trends."

State Rep. Reuven Carlyle, a valuable provocateur and freshman Democrat from Queen Anne, has gone public with his criticism of state plans to build a $300 million new data center in Olympia. In a letter to Gov. Gregoire, Carlyle and Rep. Hans Dunshee (D-44) urge the Governor to seek a second opinion before selling the construction bonds. They want her to take a hard look at shifting from "hardware-centric, expensive, proprietary silos of data trapped in old databases" to newer technologies such as the cloud.

By David Brewster

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