NSA Datacenters To Store Yottabytes Of Surveillance Data

Published by Tech Pundit | Filed under Internet, Tech, Tech Trick and Tips | November 1st, 2009

There’s an interesting article in the current New York Review of books (predictably, a book review) detailing the history of the National Security Agency, that shadowy power-behind-the-power to which we surrender much of our privacy. That in itself is interesting, but I found the introduction a bit shocking: the NSA is constructing a datacenter in the Utah desert that they project will be storing yottabytes of surveillance data. And what is a yottabyte?

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NSA Datacenters To Store Yottabytes Of Surveillance Data