J’oubliais : puissance électrique consommée 65 MW…
But without a reliable electrical system to run computers and keep them cool, the NSA’s global surveillance data systems can’t function. The NSA chose Bluffdale, Utah, to house the data center largely because of the abundance of cheap electricity. It continuously uses 65 megawatts, which could power a small city of at least 20,000, at a cost of more than $1 million a month, according to project officials and documents.
Pour le refroidissement, malgré les appels libertariens à couper l’eau (novembre 2013)
The Salt Lake Tribune
▻http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/57120093-82/nsa-power-facility-utah.html.csp
Op-Ed: Utahns should deny water to NSA center
la municipalité a conclu un contrat d’approvisionnement à un tarif préférentiel (juillet 2014)
Utah town gave NSA a deal on water | The Salt Lake Tribune
▻http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/57181642-90/bluffdale-utah-center-nsa.html.csp
Bluffdale agreed to sell water to the National Security Agency at a rate below its own guidelines and the Utah average in order to secure the contract and spur economic development in the town, according to records and interviews.
The deal could mean savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for the NSA and federal taxpayers, but is more of a gamble for Bluffdale, which had to issue a $3.5 million bond to help pay for new water lines. Bluffdale leaders consider that section of the city, now covered with sagebrush, ripe for new businesses.
Without the influx of NSA revenue, it would have been 15 years before Bluffdale could have afforded to bring water to that area, said Bluffdale City Manager Mark Reid.
pour des quantités astronomiques
Bluffdale allowed the NSA to redact large portions of the correspondence, but the emails still demonstrate how Bluffdale persuaded the NSA to buy what eventually may be more than 1 million gallons of water a day from the city rather than from four other bidders.
Mais à la suite des révélations de 2013 et de nouveaux appels à couper l’eau par des votes au niveau des états, la municipalité a fait savoir (mai 2014) qu’elle envisageait de recycler l’eau de refroidissement, dont pour l’instant, une petite partie sert à arroser la pelouse d’un parc et des terrains de football.
Bluffdale to recycle millions of gallons of water used by NSA | FOX13Now.com
▻http://fox13now.com/2014/05/12/bluffdale-to-recycle-some-nsa-water
Timothy said at maximum capacity, the Utah Data Center could use as much as 1.2 million gallons of water a day. That water is purchased in shares from the Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District. The NSA pays about $2 per 1,000 gallons.
Bluffdale built a two million gallon tank to reuse water. Currently, it is being used to water a park outside city hall where soccer fields are set up for youth games. Timothy said the water reclamation will be expanded to include residential lawns and accommodate future growth in the south end of the city.
“Eventually, as more water is returned to us, we’ll be able to add residents to the reuse project,” he said, adding it could reduce residents’ water bills.
The NSA declined to comment on what is done with the water, or Bluffdale’s plans to reclaim it. The agency also would not answer questions about whether the facility is fully operational.
Not even the mayor knows.
“I have no idea,” he said. “We don’t ask that question because they wouldn’t even tell us.”
