The Brain that won’t forget - 4 to 5 Billion to build - NSA’s Utah Data Center, located at Camp Williams, also known as the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center - its purpose is to support the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) and its precise mission is classified. The planned structure is 1.5 million square feet with 100,000 square feet of data center space and greater than 900,000 square feet of technical support and administrative space, and it is projected to cost from $1.5 billion to $2 billion when finished in September 2013. One report suggested that it will cost another $2 billion for hardware, software, and maintenance. The completed facility is expected to require 65 megawatts, costing about $40 million per year. The CNCI was established by President George W. Bush in National Security Presidential Directive 54/Homeland Security Presidential Directive 23 (NSPD-54/HSPD-23) in January 2008. The initiative outlines U.S. cybersecurity goals and spans multiple agencies including the Department of Homeland Security the Office of Management and Budget, and the National Security Agency. Richard "Dickie" George, who retired from the NSA in 2011 after 40 years, has said "the facility is a giant storeroom and the NSA needed a mega-warehouse to put all the volumes of taped phone calls, intercepted emails and poached records of online purchases." The facility will be able to hold a so-called yottabyte of information, the largest measurement computer scientists have. A yottabyte is equal to 500 quintillion pages of text, The center will constantly use 65 megawatts of power — enough to power 33,000 houses.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:41:42 +0000
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