Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Meltdowns Keep Occurring at NSA's Massive Data Center

File under: We should be thankful government is inefficient.

FOX News reports:
Chronic electrical surges at the massive new data-storage facility central to the National Security Agency's spying operation have destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of machinery and delayed the center's opening for a year, according to project documents and current and former officials.

There have been 10 meltdowns in the past 13 months that have prevented the NSA from using computers at its new Utah data-storage center, slated to be the spy agency's largest, according to project documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

One project official described the electrical troubles—so-called arc fault failures—as "a flash of lightning inside a 2-foot box." These failures create fiery explosions, melt metal and cause circuits to fail, the official said.

The causes remain under investigation, and there is disagreement whether proposed fixes will work, according to officials and project documents.

3 comments:

  1. If there is a God, it will melt into one huge permanently unusable block.

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    1. Amen, brother. I hope that there are at least a few members of the NSA who are working on this project who can see the vast evil it represents, and will continue to sabatoge it from the inside!

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  2. Praise God! I hope these meltdowns are a regular occurrence and waste all the time and efforts of these evil people.

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