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In pictures: the NSA's enormous Utah spy-data warehouse
The NSA is collecting millions of U.S. phone records along with digital communications on nine major Internet providers and is likely to store it in secret at an immense Utah facility, scheduled to open in October. Read more
- June 7, 2013: A military no trespassing sign is posted in front of the data center in Bluffdale, Utah. The nation's new billion-dollar epicenter for fighting global cyberthreats sits just south of Salt Lake City, tucked away on a National Guard base at the foot of snow-capped mountains.read moreAP Photo/Rick BowmerShare
- What's inside the facility is a closely guarded secret. Experts say it's likely to resemble this Google data center in Berkeley County, S.C., where backup tapes of data are stored. Each tape has a unique barcode so that the company's robotic system can locate the right one.read moreAP Photo/Google, Connie ZhouShare
- Beyond just backup tapes, the facility likely holds row upon row of server computers like these at Google's data center in The Dalles, Ore. Google uses these data centers to store email, photos, video, calendar entries and other information shared by its users.read moreAP Photo/Google, Connie ZhouShare
- June 6, 2013: An aerial view of the exterior reveals nothing about the facility where the government is likely to begin storing secretly collected telephone records of millions of U.S. Verizon customers, according to a top-secret court order revealed by the Senate Intelligence Committee.read moreAP Photo/Rick BowmerShare
- June 10, 2013: The mammoth center, which cost some $1.7 billion, will allow the agency to store more and, perhaps more importantly, keep information for much longer. It may hold up to a yottabyte of information, the largest measurement computer scientists have. A yottabyte is equal to 500 quintillion pages of text.read moreAP Photo/Rick BowmerShare
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In pictures: the NSA's enormous Utah spy-data warehouse
The NSA is collecting millions of U.S. phone records along with digital communications on nine major Internet providers and is likely to store it in secret at an immense Utah facility, scheduled to open in October. Read more
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