The NSA's data center is a drop in the bucket compared to the hundreds of similar data centers operated by Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, et al. And I wou

The NSA's data center is a drop in the bucket compared to the hundreds of similar data centers operated by Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, et al. And I would not call increasing your power consumption YoY by 13% or whatever it was to be "trying". To the extent they are trying, it's only to squeeze the value out of their real estate and to avoid blowing their transformers. They can spin that as "saving energy" until something like LLMs with their GPU requirements comes along.