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Supreme Court officials tell budget panel a data center electrical failure exposed single-point risks; $5 million–$7 million request proposed

2308436 · February 13, 2025
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Supreme Court budget officials told the House Budget Committee an electrical failure at one of its two data centers destroyed equipment, reduced redundancy and prompted an ask for roughly $3 million in GR plus $2 million in automation-fund authority to restore backup systems.

Missouri Supreme Court budget officials told the House Budget Committee that an electrical event at one of the judiciary’s two data centers destroyed equipment and left the court system operating without ordinary technical redundancy.

Betsy Ledgerwood, clerk of the Supreme Court, said the event "lost all of the equipment in that data center" and that the loss reduced redundancy and slowed IT modernization. "We lost our everyday technical redundancy. 1, we're…

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