"Many times we are seen as the catalyst in a blighted area," he said, citing centers near Boston and Pittsburgh.
Denouncing the Democratic front-runner, Senator John Kerry, the Bush campaign cited the center's count that the Massachusetts Democrat has collected nearly $640,000 in donations from lobbyists in the past 15 years.
Aside from Amazon, Northern Virginia officials have also cited data centers run by Qwest, Savvis, VeriSign and NTT America.
A widely quoted federal watchdog report on government redundancies cited data centers as a major source of overlap and unnecessary costs.
As he runs this year for a third term, he can cite the center to counter his Democratic opponents, who are blaming him for the weak state of the upstate economy.
The center cited "logistical reasons" for the postponement.
As an example, he cited the medical center's decision several years ago to expand by acquiring Ellenville Hospital in Ulster County, which declared bankruptcy a year ago and "negatively affected our balance sheet".
The 1998 intelligence report about the trade center cited plans by a group of unidentified Arabs, who the United States now believes had ties to Al Qaeda, to fly an explosives-laden plane from a foreign country into the trade center.
In a letter to John Elkann on Wednesday, Fiat's chairman, the center cited the deaths of three children since 2006 in fires that occurred when the Jeeps in which they were riding were struck from the rear.
The center cited a recent report by the Philippine military that Abu Sayyaf currently has 381 armed fighters "and their numbers have steadily risen since 2007 despite the killing of many ASG commanders and fighters".
