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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 $100,000 damage per event. The root cause is 'not yet sufficiently understood' but is suspected to relate to the site's 'inability to simultaneously run computers and keep them cool.' Frustrating the analysis and repair are 'incomplete information about the design of the electrical system' and the fact that "regular quality controls in design and construction were bypassed in an effort to fast track the Utah project."" Ars Technica has a short article, too, as does ITworld.
The only thing that will save us from the massive dragnet of the NSA is apparently the incompetence of the NSA.
The NSA started scanning itself causing infinite recursion....like looking at yourself through a mirror through a mirror, except digitally. I have infinite bank accounts and I have infinite hits on cougarfinder.com
Wow are they hosting Apples mapping application?
Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.
My guess: someone used some REALLY bad assumptions for electrical infrastructure planning. . .
Hey, don't be too hard on the electrical engineers - James Clapper told them that the power requirements would be really low.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(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.