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blackspade

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27. Oh, joy.

Reply to Indi Guy (Original post)

Tue Sep 24, 2013, 12:28 AM

Sep 2013

This is something that should be torn out by the roots.

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Booting Up: New NSA Data Farm Takes Root In Utah... [View all] Indi Guy Sep 2013 OP

Shaped like a great curve phallus in the landscape, ready to screw America. NYC_SKP Sep 2013 #1

LOL!!! Adsos Letter Sep 2013 #28

Three orders of magnitude margin of error in their storage estimates. Ahh, tech journalism. (nt) Posteritatis Sep 2013 #2

XKCD had a great "what if" that mentioned this last week Recursion Sep 2013 #16

Yeah - that and the power consumption cut down a lot of the estimates about this thing Posteritatis Sep 2013 #23

...a couple charts so that we all can know the kind of numbers we're talking about here... Indi Guy Sep 2013 #29

It would sound more realistic if they said bloomington-lib Sep 2013 #3

How about We the People put a few independent auditors on the staff seveneyes Sep 2013 #4

Wouldn't be shocked to see them start renting out some of the storage space hughee99 Sep 2013 #5

Bruce Schneier: NSA Spying Is Making Us Less Safe... Indi Guy Sep 2013 #8

It's not a huge leap from accessing those providers to selling them the storage hughee99 Sep 2013 #24

...makes perfect sense to me. Indi Guy Sep 2013 #30

How appropriate to smack it down in the middle of geneology central. Rmoney's wet dream. nt adirondacker Sep 2013 #6

Am I the only person that wants to fly a drone SwankyXomb Sep 2013 #7

How cute. Our very own Stasi compound. PSPS Sep 2013 #9

And the Post Office stores digital images of all your mail. blkmusclmachine Sep 2013 #10

Huh. Underwhelming. That looks smaller than Switch & Data's old center in Reston (nt) Recursion Sep 2013 #11

Does that facility include 100,000 square feet of computer servers... Indi Guy Sep 2013 #12

Yes. It's bigger, in fact. Something like 75% of Internet traffic used to pass through it Recursion Sep 2013 #13

It's not. n/t DisgustipatedinCA Sep 2013 #14

Yes it is. In fact the Equinix Reston datacenter is five times as big, it turns out Recursion Sep 2013 #15

If that's the case then we already have far too many of our tax dollars targeted... Indi Guy Sep 2013 #17

Density. Equinox doesn't draw 65MW DisgustipatedinCA Sep 2013 #19

I said Equinix is "larger", which it is Recursion Sep 2013 #20

So the NSA facility is larger overall. And it draws more power with newer equipment. DisgustipatedinCA Sep 2013 #21

According to the CIO... Indi Guy Sep 2013 #37

Nice that somebody can get money for something arikara Sep 2013 #18

A government interested in feeding the people... Indi Guy Sep 2013 #22

+1 JoeyT Sep 2013 #31

Maybe the place could double as a homeless shelter/soup kitchen. Indi Guy Sep 2013 #32

spy v. spy Generic Other Sep 2013 #25

Gees, I can almost see my house from this aerial shot... defacto7 Sep 2013 #26

Look at the bright side... Indi Guy Sep 2013 #38

Oh, joy. blackspade Sep 2013 #27

10,000 more employees to steal files. Sunlei Sep 2013 #33

Does it have a Star Trek bridge for Gen. Alexander when he visits? jsr Sep 2013 #34

If not, the general can simply... Indi Guy Sep 2013 #35

Red State boondoggle. /nt Ash_F Sep 2013 #36