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NSA's New Utah Data Center Suffering Meltdowns
linuxwrangler writes "NSA's new Utah data-center has been suffering numerous power-surges that have caused as much as $100,000 damage per event. The root cause is 'not yet sufficiently understood' but is suspected to relate to the site's 'inability to simultaneously run computers and keep them cool.' Frustrating the analysis and repair are 'incomplete information about the design of the electrical system' and the fact that "regular quality controls in design and construction were bypassed in an effort to fast track the Utah project."" Ars Technica has a short article, too, as does ITworld.
The only thing that will save us from the massive dragnet of the NSA is apparently the incompetence of the NSA.
The NSA started scanning itself causing infinite recursion....like looking at yourself through a mirror through a mirror, except digitally. I have infinite bank accounts and I have infinite hits on cougarfinder.com
I, for one, definitely trust an outfit that can't size a bloody datacenter power distribution system to build those magic technical safeguards that are allegedly allowing a spying operation of unprecedented size to occur with no abuses (And that's no bullshit!)
I wonder if we could convince them to switch to a utility that conducts background checks on electrons before sending them to the customer? That would clearly help...
Wow are they hosting Apples mapping application?
Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.
afterall google revealed a good amount on how they go about building their data centers and keeping it cool. But then again, contractors...
Rule #1 of government spending: why by one, when you can have two at twice the price?
Rule #2 of government spending: a penny saved is a spending oversight.
Maybe they shouldn't have built it in Utah?
More likely they didn't account in the power budget for the seven secret sub-basements and the underground vacutrain for the reptoids to commute from the Denver International Airport.
honestly, it's like the right hand doesn't know what the left talon is doing these days.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
My guess: someone used some REALLY bad assumptions for electrical infrastructure planning. . .
Hey, don't be too hard on the electrical engineers - James Clapper told them that the power requirements would be really low.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
From: "The Edge Of Darkness" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090424
"Craven: The word azure is a police intelligence term. It means the room is bugged or under some sort of electronic surveillance"
A perfect name for a cloud computing product.
If only they could harness that chilling effect to cool their data centers, then the NSA would be good to go.
> /. does this far too often and I hope to see better in the future
Don't hold your breath. :-)
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
The problem with writing something such as the above is that many people lack sarcasm detectors, and will take it seriously.
Such comments ought to be banned.
Not saying you're wrong, just that the NSA is spending a lot of time and effort (and money) on PR to convince the public they have nothing to fear. We need to similarly think about PR concerns in order to have a chance of opposing it.
Riker, his face palmed. Shaka when the walls fell.
Dathon and Picard, the beast of El-Adrel!
Snowden, his files open.
Darmok and Jilad at Tenagra...
Head shaking Nixon at Watergate!
Feynman at NASA, The frozen ring:
in the 'new america' you can't know if this kind of article is a fishing trap to find people who vocally disagree with the NSA.
Um, ok, then this is bad! Bad bad bad! I hope the NSA fixes their problems soon.
Love,
-A loyal civilian
More Twoson than Cupertino