Utah Data Center
The Utah Data Center at Camp Williams in Bluffdale the city ( south of Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American Fusion Center of the United States Intelligence Community, which since 2011 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers for the National Security Agency (NSA ) was built and since the end of 2013 is in operation. Its official name is Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cyber Security Initiative Data Center. During the construction phase, the project name BUMBLEHIVE / IC DATA CENTER CNCI was 1
Operators and purpose
The NSA is the operator of the facility, which will support the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative ( CNCI ). The NSA denies wanting to use the facility for the storage of private e -mails of U.S. citizens.
Already in March 2012 represented the magazine wired the view that the Utah Data Center will not only have the task of storing large portions of the entire Internet communication, but also an enormous speeds to crack complex encryption methods such as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES ) will receive. The opening of the data center was planned according to the U.S. magazine Wired for September 2013. In September 2013 some media reported the commissioning of the facility, which was not confirmed by the NSA. Also, it should have come repeatedly to technical complications.
The Utah Data Center receives, among other data from the Kunia Regional SIGINT Operations Center, NSA Texas at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, NSA Georgia at Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia, of the Aerospace Data Facility at Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado, and other listening posts in the U.S. and abroad.
Technology and equipment
The future technical equipment of the facility subject to confidentiality. It is known that the facility will require approximately 65 megawatts of electrical power. The construction of the Utah Data Center will cost $ 1.7 billion. There are about 200 technicians work. The entire area is 1 million square feet, that is approximately 93,000 square meters.
What performance will have the facility, is controversial among experts. The NSA journalist James Bamford told the Guardian:
"It's of basically a hard-drive. It's therefore a cloud, a warehouse. It'll be Storing not just text and audio but pictures and video. There's a lackadaisical attitude to this. People pay no attention until it's too late. "
"It is a hard drive basically. It is also a cloud, a database. It will store not only texts and audio data, but also videos and pictures. In contrast, there is disinterest. The public will not notice until it's too late. "
The predicted location of the installation varies depending on the information between a Yottabyte (see mirror - representing the stated investment costs about 0.17 cents per terabyte ), 5 Zettabyte or only about 3 - 12 exabytes (see Forbes, etc. with a price of approximately $ 170 per terabyte ). Converted to the world's population would correspond to a data volume of about 140 terabytes - 1.4 megabytes per person. Thus, the step in the complete monitoring and storage of worldwide communication is possible.
The Guardian Ex- NSA mathematician William Binney was quoted on 14 June 2013, the statement that the computer data center would be expected to afford a storage rate of 20 terabytes per minute - that would correspond to the total holdings of the Library of Congress of the United States ( second largest library in the world with 31 million books, 12 million photos, etc.) every minute. The data throughput of the world's largest Internet node, DE- CIX, was the previous record over 18 terabytes per minute - measured on 12 May 2013, 2.55 Tbit / s
According to Wired to the Data Center work with a Titan supercomputer.
Location
According to Spiegel informants was the choice as the location of the UDC near the middle of the state of Utah, as the majority of the local population are Mormons which are regarded as particularly patriotic.
At the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, a program was introduced, formed by the students is to manage large data centers. In the first year, 20 students are provided for additional training.