The NSA’s Massive Data Center Is Coming Online Ahead Of Schedule — And It's More Powerful Than You Thought [BuzzFeed]

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"The NSA’s ability to collect and store such vast quantities of information is difficult to grasp. But so is the enormous footprint of the data center in Bluffdale, Utah, 25 miles south of Salt Lake City. The facility, which cost the government $2 billion, covers 1 million square feet, 100,000 of which is purely for computer servers and storage hardware. According to James Bamford’s Wired magazine article published last year, “The Pentagon is attempting to expand its worldwide communications network, known as the Global Information Grid, to handle yottabytes (10^24 bytes) of data. (A yottabyte is a septillion bytes—so large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude.)”"

The NSA’s Massive Data Center Is Coming Online Ahead Of Schedule — And It's More Powerful Than You Thought