According to a press release from the City of Seattle the electrical system upgrades for the City data center that meant a partial shutdown of the data center were completed early.

The City’s website and online applications are up and running.

"I want to thank the City staff who worked hard on this maintenance project, especially the employees of our Department of Finance and Administrative Services and the Department of Information Technology," said Mayor Mike McGinn.

McGinn also announced that the 2013-2014 Proposed Budget includes $3 million in funding to plan for the next generation Data Center. This funding will allow the City to begin planning and designing alternatives for a new Data Center that will provide more capacity, redundancy and resiliency.

On Monday, July 23, 2012, the city of Seattle identified a power transmission problem in the Seattle Municipal Tower that directly impacts the Department of Information Technology's (DoIT) Data Center and IT infrastructure of City Light and the Department of Transportation. One of several electrical busways used to provide power to different portions of the building had a higher-than-normal temperature level, which indicated that sections of it were in need of replacement. The city reduced the electrical load, which stabilized the bus and allowed the city to schedule the replacement for Labor Day weekend.

After the data center loads were moved to other electrical infrastructure, the bus was powered down on the evening of Friday, August 31. Maintenance work proceeded more quickly than anticipated due to favorable conditions. After testing and certification to ensure it was operating at a normal temperature level and could handle the load, the data center was returned to the restored bus late Saturday evening.

Some non-essential applications, such as live traffic camera feeds, were powered down for the duration of the weekend and will be restored on Tuesday, September 4."