The National Security Agency of the United States is building a giant data center in Bluffdale, Utah. It will cost $2 billion. According to one report, "It’s a state-of-the-art facility designed to support the intelligence community in its mission to, in turn, enable and protect the nation’s cybersecurity." It will collect a wide range of data about people to prevent terrorism. In addition, it will have powerful computers built to decipher encrypted information. Ref: https://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1 - The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) By James Bamford, Wired, 03.15.12; Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Conceptual Site plan
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Tom W. Sulcer