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Does the NSA Need More Electricity?
An anonymous reader writes "The Baltimore sun (NSA watchers can't live without it) reports that the NSA worries about overloading the Baltimore energy grid if it were to install new computing capacity at it's Fort Meade HQ. This includes two multi million dollar supercomputers. Some systems are reportedly not getting the cooling they need. The temperature in NSA buildings is raised two degrees to conserve energy, according to the article. The NSA is Baltimore Gas and Electric`s (BGE) biggest customer the sun reports. Former NSA employees fear that a power outage at Fort Meade would have worse consequences than the 2000 "information overload" related outage. The NSA does apparently not have the backup power generation capacity to power the whole facility during power outages. Some point a finger at a new mall build in the area, but a BGE spokesman says the mall is "fairly easily accommodated". Some sources say the problem was identified in the late 90`s. But "keeping the lights on" wasn't a priority. A $4 million computer upgrade to the system that allocates power was postponed for budgetary reasons. (the NSA budged is estimated at $8 Billion) The article reports that the budget documents for listening posts around the world report similar infrastructural problems, in the budgets for 07 as well as previous years. It should be noted that the huge "groundbreaker" IT infrastructure upgrade program is reportedly over budget and late, but not yet fully operational."
What are you basing this on besides Tom Clancy novels? You idiot. Soo, sooo stupid.
So what is your solution? Outsource our state security to the private sector? Sounds like a plan.
Picture instead interrogators waiting for the arrival of new battery cables to replace the worn out ones.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Er, what? Didn't a lot of the older PCs actually consume less power than the "modern" Pentium IV class chips? I'm not sure how that would be "as inefficient as you can find"?
Throw the bums out!
Well, it's not an internet site, but I hear that School is a place run pretty well by people who know one-syllable words very well, such as yes and no!
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
And we'll believe your post because your spelling errors cause us to think you must be "leet". 60s = 60's and propritary = proprietary.
I reserve the right to think for myself. Others' opinions are optional. Puppy on lap = typos...not illiteracy.