At its 18th meeting held December 09, 2001 in San Francisco, the IGS Governing Board recommended the formation of a working group to focus on data center issues. This working group will tackle many of the problems facing our data centers as well as develop new ideas to aid users both internal and external to the IGS. The direction of the IGS has changed since its start in 1992 and many new working groups, projects, data sets, and products have been created and incorporated into the service since that time. Among the topics to be addressed by this group are an effective data flow redundancy/backup plan, reliability, security and consistency at data centers, and timely archive and dissemination of data as the IGS moves into a real-time mode for selected products.