Blackouts in the new data center of the NSA

The future infrastructure espionage generates timely manner electric shock power of lightning. Commissioning is delayed.

The NSA is facing problems of electric shock.

The start of the huge data center NSA is more complicated than expected. According to Wired, the infrastructure for the digital espionage should be commissioned in September 2013. But electrical blackouts have pushed the opening at a later date, according to The Wall Street Journal. And not just any failures. In extreme complexity, the grid generated in the space of a year, a dozen electric shocks very localized and so violent, they melt the surrounding metal. Visually, it would look like a "lightning in a box of 60 cm." In each case, the material damage amounted to a hundred thousand dollars. The origin of these failures is not yet clear, hence the ignition delay data center.

Located in the godforsaken corner of Bluffdale, Utah, the new data center of the NSA is spread over 90,000 square meters and its construction would cost more than $ 1.4 billion, excluding hardware. It consumes a power of 65 megawatts. Hit the seal of the "secret", it is obviously a source of a lot of speculation. According to some, it will be able to store all Internet communication. Anyway, its gigantism obviously poses serious design problems.