TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The state has given Kansas State University $10 million in unused computer equipment that was bought in a failed effort to develop a centralized storage system for computer information.

The university says in a news release that it will use the equipment for research, education and to assist with technology issues created after a fire last year in its main library.

The state bought the equipment in 2016, but then decided the proposal to create a Kansas GovCloud storage system was too expensive. The unused computer equipment had been in storage for several years in the Docki...