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Friday, March 16, 2012
The Ultimate Data Center Is Now Being Built For The NSA
The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze. Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow of Utah’s Wasatch Range to the east and the Oquirrh Mountains to the west. It’s the heart of Mormon country, where religious pioneers first arrived more than 160 years ago. They came to escape the rest of the world, to understand the mysterious words sent down from their god as revealed on buried golden plates, and to practice what has become known as “the principle,” marriage to multiple wives.
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My Comment: Everything and anything that is communicated will probably be going through this data center .... and stored.
$2 billion to build it .... and God only knows how much to run it.
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