NSA Utah Data Farm
As advocates of privacy and security experts debate the validity of massive data from the National security agency's collection, the agency puts the finishing touches to his even greater data firm.
the huge $ 1.2 billion complex to a base of the National Guard 26 miles south of Salt Lake City has 1.5 million square feet of top secret space. only high-performance computers NSA fill 100,000 square feet.
The Utah Data Center is a data farm will begin harvesting emails, phone records, text messages and other electronic data in September.
"the purpose of the NSA's foreign intelligence and foreign intelligence that goes on networks is what we talk about," said Harvey Davis, the director of the agency for installations and logistics .
The estimated power these computing resources in Utah is so massive that it requires the use of a little-known unit of storage space: the zettabyte. Cisco quantifies a zettabyte that the amount of data that would fill 250 billion DVDs.
Despite its capacity, the central Utah does not meet the NSA's data requirements. Last month, the agency broke ground on the neighboring farm data at its headquarters in Ft. Meade, Maryland, but this facility will be only two-thirds the size of the mega-complex in Utah
Source: .. Amid the controversy data, NSA built its data Biggest Farm: NPR
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