Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers

* 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.