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Source: The Guardian
Drive south down Camp Williams Road, a highway outside Salt Lake City, and your eye is drawn to the left. A gun-mounted helicopter and other military hardware marks the entrance of the Utah army national guard base. The ice-capped Rockies soar in the distance.
... Further up the hill, invisible from the highway, you encounter concrete walls, a security boom and checkpoint with guards, sniffer dogs and cameras. Two plaques with official seals announce the presence of the office of the director of national intelligence and the National Security Agency.
A spokesperson at NSA headquarters in Maryland did not welcome a Guardian request to visit its western outpost. "That is a secure facility. If you trespass on federal property security guards will be obliged to do their jobs." An interview was out of the question.
Welcome to the Utah Data Center, a new home for the NSA's exponentially expanding information trove. The $1.7bn facility, two years in the making, will soon host supercomputers to store gargantuan quantities of data from emails, phone calls, Google searches and other sources. Sited on an unused swath of the national guard base, by September it will employ around 200 technicians, span 1m sq ft and use 65 megawatts of power.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/14/nsa-utah-data-facility
G_j
(40,367 posts)and stop pouring billions into this insanity?
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Why do you think they are spending this much money n this? How else do you suppress protests?
The Guardian actually went there yesterday...our lovely press...not so much.
CrazyJudy
(40 posts)DirkGently
(12,151 posts)Why spend a little money doing things that unquestionably help people, when you can spend much more money secretly spying on them?