A new €7.3m government corporate data centre is nearing completion and will be inaugurated in October or November.
IT Minister Austin Gatt visited the new state-of-the-art centre in Sta Venera this morning. He said the centre should meet the government's data storage and processing needs for the next 10 years and has been planned for upgrades as they became available.
The new data centre will take over from the data centres at Gattard House and Mater Dei Hospital. The former will be gradually wound down while the hospital data centre will be retained.
Work on the new data centre, near Psaila Street, started in October last year. Both the building and the equipment, including security precautions, meet the latest international standards.