The US Census Bureau is expanding its data center capacity and is looking at Atlanta, Ga., as the location for its new data center. The agency has been lobbied by Georgia State University, together with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and others to locate the facility in the city.

The $1.1m data center will be the highest-level business, social and health statistical data storage and processing facility of the US government. If located in Atlanta, it will be built in the building of the Atlanta Federal Reserve. The bureau