National Security Agency San Antonio TX 2012 Under Construction 2010
Posted on 06/18/2013 4:06:19 PM PDT by drewh
Even as reports break about the size and scope of the National Security Agency’s vast data storage center in Utah, new details are emerging about a second massive NSA center in San Antonio, Texas. According to the Houston Chronicle, “Satellite and aerial imagery show that massive air conditioning units and backup generators have been added to the facility, which is now ringed by barbed-wire fencing. City permits and property tax records show that the complex has been dramatically expanded.” According to sources, the plant will supposedly translate intercepted communications from the NSA; the communications are then forwarded to Maryland for processing.
The data center itself is about 94,000 square feet. It became operational in 2012. But the San Antonio Express-News could find no funding in the Defense Department budgets from 2004 through 2013 for the work at the Sony plant where the NSA center was located. The property on which the data center is located has grown by approximately 135,000 square feet, and is now worth some $72 million. A local bond sale in 2006 estimated that the NSA would be dropping $300 million into the area.
Originally, the NSA was much more transparent about the project, actually holding a job fair to promote their expansion in San Antonio. But from 2007 on, the news about the site has been nonexistent. In 2010, San Antonio residents reported that their garage doors had been opening randomly, and the NSA admitted that its antenna were interfering with garage door openers.
Ben Shapiro is Editor-At-Large of Breitbart News and author of the New York Times bestseller “Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America” (Threshold Editions, January 8, 2013
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Seems like an awful lot of data processing capacity for just storing phone numbers we dial.
LMAO
Lying bastards.
This may explain the Ted Cruz comment to hold off on NSA judgment. As pathetic as it is.
National Security Agency San Antonio TX 2012 Under Construction 2010
That’s the Microsoft Data Center.
Great point, why do they need all these massive datacenters to store phone metadata only?? This data could be stored in a small office building.
You only need this much space if you want to store massive data like audio and video etc.
Yup. Not without precedent either:
http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/x212015747/Wal-Marts-data-center-remains-mystery
All you ‘I buy my ammo at walmart for cash’ people need to think again about there being any anonymity in that act.
Exactly. We’re being lied to big-time.
I’ll be they turn on and capture what people are doing with their own laptop camera too.
Eyebrows and garage doors, according to what I heard on the Sam Malone Show.
LOL, I was unaware of the /q. Now I know.
Many large business will have two duplicate data centers geographically separated. If one goes down they can immediately or very quickly switch over to a second.
These are the regions/divisions in the US as defined by the Census Bureau.
https://www.census.gov/geo/www/us_regdiv.pdf
West/Pacific - ?
West/Mountain - Utah DC
Midwest/West North Central - ?
Midwest/East North Central - ?
Northeast/New England - ?
Northeast/Mid Atlantic - Maryland DC
South/West South Central - San Antonio
South/East South Central - ?
South/South Atlantic - ?
I would expect the Midwest region to contain one, along with West/Pacific and possibly the South/South Atlantic.
Basically anywhere power and land is cheap.
Actually, 94,000 SF isn’t all *that* much space, in the grand scheme of things, for raised floor space. Some years ago when I was in that business, I did a few projects in the 20k SF range. Heck, going back 17 years ago, Equifax probably had nearly that much in one facility.
Here, let me close your tag for you:
< /Unixnerd>
;-P
And Ted Nugent, NO!
...and all the rest of the (we) conservatives that are were planning to move there to get away from the Commies/Liberals/Creepiness.
Bet they can't find The Won's Wallet Stimulus funding either, but it's there.
So, Perry allowed this? One more reason he’s not getting another vote from this household.
That place is named Texas Cryptology Center, nsa.gov. You can zoom in and see the construction. Of course, once they got the roof on, they probably changed it all costing us more tax dollars.
It’s the NSA.
James Bamford in Puzzle Palace listed one that wasn’t cheap.
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