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."

[ColdSteelTalon]

Someone should fly a 747 into that place...

[rcrngroup]

NSA & its chief tyrant, muzzlim commie pig RAT Bastard 0dbumb0! Whatsoever they are sowing, they are reaping. They sow in deceit & dishonesty, they reap in power shortages & meltdowns. Someday they will be judged at the Great White Throne judgment and will be cast into the Lake of Fire for eternity. The ultimate payback!

[1010RD]

Mmmm. Plasma.

[LucyT]

NSA's Utah Spy Supercenter Crippled By Power Surges

. . . . Tut, tut; what a shame.

[texas booster]

Thinking about this, it sounds like any major facility in any socialist dream world, like Venezuela under Chavez or China.

It couldn't be incompetence, the gov’t hired one of Obama’s or Jarrett's nephews to run the construction....

[shego]

This summer, the Army Corps of Engineers dispatched its Tiger Team, officials said.

It took a "Tiger Team" to figure out that building a facility that needs 1,700,000 gallons of water a day in the middle of the freaking desert was a bad idea?

[StormEye]

Probably caused by affirmative action design firms that are special friends of Obama. In addition, using only the cheapest, most poorly made electrical components from the Chi-Coms in order to boost profits. How much did the DNC & Obama receive in kickbacks is another question.