Comment Re: Sell or give them away. (Score 1) 88
It's about historical wills, where there are copies for anything relevant.
Yes I'm sure you can come up with fantastic scenarios why you need to store old shit. You know, like hoarders. But the government has other fish to fry as well and digital scans are fine for most purposes.
The Dutch Tax & Customs authority hasn't had new paper entries in the archive for years now. They still have two very large and expensive climate controlled and guarded storage areas for historical papers and objects that remain relevant. But do you think the 7 billion documents that are created from digital data and need to be stored over a 7 year period will be useful to store as paper? Including the destruction of 1 billion paper copies each year?
In that case I'd really like to see the business case and also the plans for a few very large buildings. And a powerplant to be run off the waste heat.