“The Feds have invested $ 1.5 billion of our money in a ‘data farm’ in Utah despite all their hype about ‘sequestration.’ But you may not realize that this boondoggle is even more offensively wasteful than you thought: it is ‘essentially the world’s largest backup hard drive… It’ll be one of several data farms that make up the [NSA’a] digital backbone, but information kept there won’t be unique. … Utah’s center will house the most data but everything is networked and if the center goes down, [Lonny] Anderson[, the NSA’s chief information officer] says, no data will be lost.'”
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/140301.html
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