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NSA data center will use 1.7M gallons of water per day to read your email

Geek- Data centers are notorious for using a lot of power and other resources, but residents of Bluffdale, Utah are a little annoyed by the volume of water that will soon begin flowing to a new NSA facility. When it is completed in September, cooling the massive collection of servers will require as much as 1.7 million gallons of water each day. That’s no drop in the bucket when you’re in the middle of a desert like Bluffdale happens to be.

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Settler3934d ago

Damn, NSA employees drink a lot of water.

SJIND3933d ago

1.7 millions gallons a day, I wonder how much in electricity, technical man power, security.

Lord_Sloth3933d ago

I suppose SOME1 has to read my emails. Lord knows I don't.

cheetorb3932d ago

Waste of water, waste of time, waste of money, waste of resources, waste of (supposedly) talented people.

Typical government.

Sashamaz3932d ago

They raised our water prices telling us that it is running out...

C4BL33932d ago

That's going green for yea

ChrisW3932d ago

Considering that the building has an LEED Platinum status... They are VERY green!

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The CIA and NSA use ad-blockers because they're just as vulnerable as you are

Online advertisements have become so dangerous that even the U.S. Intelligence Community blocks them.

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Hold your shock, the NSA has been collecting even more call records than they told us

From documents obtained by the ACLU, it turns out that the NSA illegally collected call records after it promised to stop collecting them.

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Senior NSA official says tech is wondrous -- and risky in a world of cyberspace foes

In an exclusive interview with chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge, the new head of NSA cybersecurity discusses evolving threats.

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