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The NSA data center in Utah will be up and running by the end of September ; Level 0 of one of the four data halls on the site ; Level 1 of the data hall, where servers will be housed ; Brewster Kahle, with the Internet Archive's serversBrewster Kahle is the engineering genius behind the Internet Archive, which is kind of like the NSA for the public Web. The NSA data center will accumulate private interactions and information and make them searchable; the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine does the same thing for the open Web for historical purposes. Kahle estimates that a space of that size could hold 10,000 racks of servers (assuming each rack takes up 10 square feet). "One of these racks cost about $100,000," says Kahle. "So we are talking $1 billion in machines."
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Documents show that chronic electrical problems at the NSA's mammoth new data center in Utah destroyed equipment and delayed the center's opening, according to reports.
LEHI, Utah – The data the National Security Administration is accused of mining may ultimately be stored in a massive facility overlooking the Utah Valley. The accusation that the NSA has acquired...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The Army Corps of Engineers says it has found electrical problems at the National Security Agency's $1.7 billion data center in Utah that...
4-Minute Listen ; The National Security Agency won't say exactly when it will fully rev up its newest and biggest data farm in the Salt Lake City suburb of Bluffdale, Utah. There will be no "grand opening" or celebratory barbecue outside the sprawling facility, which is five times the size of the Ikea down the road. But, according to NSA spokeswoman Vanee' Vines, "We turn each machine on as it is installed, and the facility is ready for that installation to begin." · Those machines are computer servers — enough to fill four warehouse-size "d ...
your private digital details just may be stored on Uncle Sam’s cloud inside an unassuming building in the desert. This week’s episode is America's Dark Web - The NSA’s Utah Data Center.