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eyeroll You can lose the NSA's largest datacenter in a corner of any Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, or Apple datacenter. Even their OMG-gigantzor datac
by thrownaway2424 13y ago
eyeroll You can lose the NSA's largest datacenter in a corner of any Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, or Apple datacenter. Even their OMG-gigantzor datacenter in Utah includes a mere 100k square feet of computer room floor area. Given government overhead and inefficiency, a 100k sq-ft NSA datacenter is probably the equivalent of a 10k sq-ft commercial datacenter.
By comparison, one of Apple's datacenter buildings is over 300k sq-ft, and Apple is at best a minor also-ran in the datacenter business.
The NSA's computing facilities are insignificant compared to commercial facilities.
- sbierwagen 13y agoThat's because the commercial facilities are doing all the heavy lifting for the NSA. Facebook does all the analysis, NSA gets the finished reports.
- mpyne 13y agoYou realize NSA has a lot more signals interception programs than just PRISM, right?