NSA Keeping Details About Data Center Quiet -- KSL.comBLUFFDALE — The $1.5 billion spy complex being built for the National Security Agency is becoming more conspicuous as construction advances at Camp Williams within sight of traffic on I-15.
But the agency building 1 million square feet of enclosed space, including 100,000 square feet of space just for computers that will gather and digest intelligence information, continues to do what it does best — keep secrets — when asked about the project.
The NSA sent a short statement to the Deseret News on Friday, but only after Wired Magazine compiled a voluminous story published the same day. The broadly researched story builds the skeleton of its story using information NSA released at its January 2011 groundbreaking and puts meat and skin on that skeleton with anecdotal data from the computer and information technology industries.
One thing the Utah Data Center is not likely to run short of: really big numbers.
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My Comment: The sentence that got my attention was the following ....
.... 100,000 square feet of space just for computers.
That's going to be one hell of an electricity bill.
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