Fiery, Metal-Melting Explosions at NSA Data Center Stump Investigators
Officials told the Wall Street Journal that 10 fiery explosions, known as arc-fault failures, have ripped apart machinery, melted metal and destroyed circuits. The repeated meltdowns have delayed the opening of the one-million square foot facility by 12 months.
Just found this video report:
Explosions at the NSA Utah Data Center. Good Grief!
Water use hints at problems at Utah Data Center
If you want a clue as to whether there are problems at the Utah Data Center, talk to the man selling the massive spy building its water.
When operational, the Utah Data Center is expected to consume 1.7 million gallons a day in order to cool the people and technology inside. But so far, says Bluffdale City Manager Mark Reid, water consumption has been wildly inconsistent.
"They’ve gone from no usage to over their amounts that they planned to use," Reid said on Tuesday.
"I don’t know what they’re doing there," Reid said, "but they’re usage has been all over the board. "
The sporadic water use could point to the kinds of equipment failures reported this week in the Wall Street Journal.
Well surprise, surprise.
It's a desert!!
Here's a recent picture from Deseret News
While cheap electricity was a major factor in why the NSA placed a data center in Utah, available water also was an issue. The NSA has an agreement to purchase water from Bluffdale. Bluffdale receives waste water from the Utah Data Center and uses it to water city parks.
Bluffdale doesn't have any water! I wonder where they are getting it from?
The NSA has agreed to buy a set amount of water from Bluffdale even if the Utah Data Center doesn’t use it all.
That’s to ensure Bluffale is able to repay a $3.5 million bond it issued in 2011 to pipe the water to the data center.
The distance between Bluffdale and the Data center is under 3 miles. So the water pipeline cost $1,166,666 a mile? Wow!!
Apparently, there was some idea how much water would be needed.
New Utah NSA center requires 1.7M gallons of water daily to operate
Upon hearing the initial estimates of the NSA center's water use, some residents were skeptical.
"We live in a desert and so it seems like an excess," said Barbara Ericksmoen. "Am I concerned about it? On the fence."
And Utah is in a drought!
August, 2013
Feds again declare drought disaster in Utah
All Utah counties have been declared drought stricken for the second year as farmers and ranchers battle parched ranges and damaged crops.
And if 60 years of record keeping hold true, extremely dry weather likely will plague the West for the next decade.
Maybe all the
Utah Weather Modification (rain/snow making) equipment west of the NSA Data Center will work?
Or maybe the NSA Data Center is using Bluffdales waste water?
Google Cools Data Center with Waste Water
Peter Frost, the Executive Director of WSA says the arrangement is a “win-win.” A typical data center can use hundreds of thousands of gallons of water a day in evaporative cooling. By using waste water, Google doesn’t strain the municipality’s drinking water reservoir – a serious concern in the state, which has seen explosive growth and water demand in past decades while suffering increasingly severe droughts.
bobswern reported about this the other day, but it warrants repeating.
Seriously? Isn't it about time for this Alexander man to spend more time with his family?
NSA Director Alexander Admits He Lied about Phone Surveillance Stopping 54 Terror Plots
Alexander admitted that only 13 of the 54 cases were connected to the United States. He also told the committee that
only one or two suspected plots were identified as a result of bulk phone record collection.
One or two? Seriously? We are spending $Billions on this Constitution trashing NSA and they thwart one or two? And they can't pin it down to how many between one or two. Did the surveillance thwart even one?
Is this the freaking Onion again?
THU OCT 03, 2013 AT 07:40 PM PDT NSA Dir./Gen. Alexander Admits Gov't Lied About "54 Plots Thwarted" By Surveillance