Posted on 07/25/2013 9:16:18 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
He works at one of the three-letter intelligence agencies and oversees construction of a $1.2 billion surveillance data center in Utah that is 15 times the size of MetLife Stadium, home to the New York Giants and Jets. Long Island native Harvey Davis, a top National Security Agency official, needs that commanding presence. His role is to supervise infrastructure construction worldwide for NSA, which is part of the Defense Department. That involves tending to logistics, military installations, as well as power, space and cooling for all NSA data centers.
In May, crews broke ground on a $792 million computing center at the agencys headquarters near Baltimore that will complement the Utah site. Together the Utah center and Marylands 28-acre computer farm span 228 acresmore than seven times the size of the Pentagon.
During an interview with Government Executive in June, amid the uproar over leaked details of NSAs domestic espionage activities, Davis describes the 200-acre Utah facility as very transparent: Only brick and mortar. A data center just provides energy and chills machines, he says.
(Excerpt) Read more at defenseone.com ...
Yesterday I heard one of the defenders of the program saying a phonebook contains more personal information than the metadata they obtain by snooping. It’s not like you couldn’t marry the ADDITIONAL information to the other metadata.
Every damn website can offer it’s own version of “the white pages”.
By floor space, this would make it more than twice as large as the current world’s largest building (New Century Centre in China)!
It probably doesn’t qualify for the record because it is technically composed of multiple interconnected buildings.
They need the extra space just to store the Weiner texts and photos.
A few thousand botnets with specific keywords could send their little spying operation into a dog chasing it’s tail scenario.
Or...a few thousand citizens could surround the place and just burn it to the ground.
(__)o(__)bammy’s only appropriate library is the basement of an outhouse.
Or...a few thousand citizens could surround the place and just burn it to the ground.
Kinda like a woodstock, but for liberty....
I wonder how many angry citizens it would take to storm the castle so to speak...
Of course they would probably send the drones after us....
Nothing to worry about with regards to these structures. The next actual war will be Tea-party minded folks against the Homo-genized military.
Bachmann says that THIS is necessary? BS! And they cant stop the Muslim Nazis even with all this data. Bob
Fine. Then we shoot them down.
H/T to Drudge for link to this article..
and right below this story..
New ‘Homeland’ HQ $1B over-budget, 2026 opening...
Former Mental Hospital...
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not starring Janet Incompetento as Nurse Cratchet.. the inmates never escaped the asylum of a bug gubamint we got today, they just took it over.. before weiner whipped it out .. again.. now they have no refuges left..
Don’t blame “Bammy” blame the Republicans that give him the funding. He is just a stupid community organizer.
I hope they have adjacent land for significant growth to accommodate processing for video feeds from every block in the US. 1984.
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