Posted: 10/26/2012 12:22:56 PM EDT
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http://www.ksl.com/?sid=22705217&nid=148&title=safety-or-surveillance-what-is-the-nsas-utah-data-center&s_cid=featured-2
This baby will be able to store up to 5 zettabytes. "The facility is 1 million square feet of space, with a price tag well above $1 billion; and it will have an appetite for electricity that would embarrass Godzilla. Computers and cooling systems at the NSA's Utah Data Center will reportedly consume $40 million worth of power each year." |
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There was a story about this place in WIRED earlier in the year: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/ |
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There was a story about this place in WIRED earlier in the year: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/ That is an interesting article. |
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It will be obsolete in 5yrs. 
The worlds total data usage is something like 2.5 zettabytes. This place can hold that x2. That's an incredible number that most of us can't really understand, but Binney gave an idea of what it means. "(It) pretty much means all the communications in the world, for roughly a hundred years," he said. |
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Quoted: to spy on the US population and suppress threats to the power structureI wonder why on God's beautiful blue earth they need that? Anything transmitted electronically they will be able to scan and query. Al-queda moves their communications physically by courier to evade the NSA. |
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There was a story about this place in WIRED earlier in the year: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/ And posts from here as well, including the ignorant comments that this will be used in our best interests. |