NSA's Utah Spy Supercenter Crippled By Power Surges

ZeroHedge ^ | 10/8/2013 | Tyler Durden

[mojito]

...[W]e ran a story in March 2012 which exposed the NSA's unprecedented domestic espionage project, codenamed Stellar Wind, and specifically the $1.4+ billion data center spy facility located in Bluffdale, Utah, which spans more than one million square feet, uses 65 megawatts of energy (enough to power a city of more than 20,000), and can store exabytes or even zettabytes of data (a zettabyte is 100 million times larger than all the printed material in the Library of Congress), consisting of every single electronic communication in the world, whether captured with a warrant or not. Yet despite all signs to the contrary, Uber-general Keith Alexander and his spy army are only human, and as the WSJ reports, the NSA's Bluffdale data center - whose interior may not be modeled for the bridge of the Starship Enterprise - has been hobbled by chronic electrical surges as a result of at least 10 electrical meltdowns in the past 13 months.

Such meltdowns have prevented the NSA from using computers at its new Utah data-storage center which then supposedly means that not every single US conversation using electronic media or airwaves in the past year has been saved for posterity and the amusement of the NSA's superspooks.

This being the NSA, of course, not even a blown fuse is quite the same as it would be in the normal world: "One project official described the electrical troubles—so-called arc fault failures—as "a flash of lightning inside a 2-foot box." These failures create fiery explosions, melt metal and cause circuits to fail, the official said. The causes remain under investigation, and there is disagreement whether proposed fixes will work, according to officials and project documents. One Utah project official said the NSA planned this week to turn on some of its computers there."

[mojito]

NSA: 0bmamCare + spooks = fail.

[driftdiver]

Power design in datacenters is pretty much settled science. Sounds like incompetence to me.

[Dead Corpse]

Um...

Good.

[tallyhoe]

Probably their Wind Generators are bad!!!

[Dead Corpse]

FedGov? Check.

Incompetent engineering... Check.

[MarineBrat]

Dare I say it....

[6ppc]

Power design in datacenters is pretty much settled science. Sounds like incompetence to me.

Or deniability. If any authority demands to know what data they are storing they can just say "the power surge ate it".

[listenhillary]

Apache Indian burial ground. Uh Oh!

Just kidding (Maybe)

[listenhillary]

Maybe we had some patriot electricians involved.

[Brad from Tennessee]

I wonder how much of the electrical infrastructure came from Chinese companies?

[Old Sarge]

[Albion Wilde]

I wonder how much of the electrical infrastructure came from Chinese companies?

Likeliest scenario!

[Paine in the Neck]

"Pull the plug! Pull the plug!"

[no-to-illegals]

Love those Electrical Engineers out there in the West! Did they do it? To tell the truth ... impossible to know ... lol.

[no-to-illegals]

or dare one say ... sabotage.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

...or maybe the State of Utah is having second thoughts about hosting the spawn of Satan? I hope the whole place burns up.

Oh and, "Hi , NSA!!!!"

[max americana]

that’s why you don’t hire illegals to build stuff LOL

[ConservativeMan55]

Bttt

[BulletBobCo]

Somehow tied into the Obamacare’s new website.

[ZULU]

Hope the damn thing has a total meltdown - along with the idiots who designed it.