If you were wondering why the National Security Administration is building a huge new data center in Utah, now you know. It likely will house millions and millions of records of phone calls, credit card transactions, web searches and emails.
The NSA is building a million square-foot data mining complex in Bluffdale, Utah.
But given the fact the NSA already reportedly intercepts 1.7 billion American electronic records and communications a day, it makes sense that they would need to expand operations beyond its headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland.
Friday, June 7, 2013
So Now We Can Guess What New NSA Data Warehouse is For!
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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Do you think Qwest / CenturyLink can deliver the gigabit and terabit fiber this place will need in order to suck all that big data? I have serious doubts.
Well, all it takes is a whole lot of your (taxpayer) money.
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