In an important shift away from previous cloud-first or cloud-only strategies, Congress recently directed federal agencies to leverage the entire waterfront of commercial data center solutions to meet their data center mission needs. This direction appears in the Federal Data Center Enhancement Act of 2023, part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2024. The Act makes many important updates to the expired Federal Data Center Optimization Initiative. This includes doubling down on previous impactful federal data center consolidation efforts, calling for new reporting requirements on sustainability, security, and reliability, and for the first time, giving agencies…

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