Detailed Photo Utah Data Center in the public domain Bashny.Net

Electronic Frontier Foundation continues to struggle against the NSA. Although this is an unarmed resistance, but in the course went large aircraft. Specifically, the airship.

Activists from the EFF and partner organizations запустили on the largest of the Utah Data Center in Utah bright blimp with the words "at the bottom of illegal spying." The balloon flew not just so, and did photographing areas.

Yesterday EFF has published the result: a high-resolution photo, it captures the whole territory of a large Utah Data Center, whose construction began in 2012 and was completed in September 2013th. This complex after the commissioning abbr> will become the largest unit in the information network of the NSA.



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EFF hoped that this action will help to emphasize the need for open discussion of the NSA spying and will serve to illustrate the intentional position NSA to intercept not random, and all electronic communications.



Estimated cost of construction of the data center in Utah is $ 2 billion. The diagram shows four rooms for servers with a total area 9290 m <sup>2 sup>, office for technical and administrative staff; backup power generators and fuel tanks, which lasts for three days a data center; water tanks and pumps, the capacity of 6, 4 million liters of water a day; refrigerators and heat exchangers through which water flows, only about 60 thousand. tonnes cooling equipment; electrical substation; protection department, where established center CCTV, Intrusion Detection System and other subsystems worth $ 10 million. The area of ​​all the administrative and technical buildings - 83,613 m 2 sup>. [ source ]

Source: habrahabr.ru/post/229349/</sup>