Why the US Government has so many data centers

[fw at deneb.enyo.de (Florian Weimer)]

* Mark T. Ganzer:

> Note that I an not answering in any sort of "official" capacity....but
> I will instead ask this for your consideration:  Do servers in "test,
> stage, development, or any other environment" really need to have the
> same environmental, power and connectivity requirements that
> "production" servers have?

Depends on the process.  If you can push to production without pushing
to stage first, then stage and production need the same service level.