July 2009: Utah chosen for new NSA data centre..right next to Colorado

http://www.ksl.com/?sid=7105272&nid=148

The National Security Agency has chosen Utah, more specifically Camp Williams, as the place to build a new data center.

Apparently, it’s been in the works for years. President Barack Obama has now signed a bill in which Congress agrees to pay several million dollars toward the center.

The facility is going to be huge, easily one of the largest construction projects in the state’s history. Now that word is getting out, it’s all the talk among construction companies.

The data center is estimated to be 1 million square feet, sitting on 200-acres, and it couldn’t come at a better time for Utah’s economy.

“It makes every construction company excited about the possibility for new work,” said Alan Rindlisbacher, director of marketing for Layton Construction.

Layton Construction is one contracting company hoping to get in on the action.

“This would truly be a project that would jump-start the economy in the state of Utah and create lots of opportunities,” Rindlisbacher said.

It would also create a lot of jobs. According to economist James Wood with the David Eccles School of Business, Utah needs this.

“It will really have an enormous impact, and it couldn’t come at a better time,” Wood said.

He says Utah is expected to lose 30,000 construction jobs by 2010, but this new project would help.

“It’s a project of $1.6 billion to $2 billion in construction. It’s equivalent to what’s going on downtown with the City Creek [project],” Wood said.

So, what service will the new data center provide? The NSA would only tell us this: “A data center is a specialized facility that houses computer systems and supporting equipment.”

But we know the NSA’s job is to keep the nation safe against terror at home and abroad. The agency makes and breaks codes and feeds information to U.S. decision makers and military leaders, and much of their work is confidential.

“It’s caught everyone’s attention for sure,” Rindlisbacher said.

Even Congressman Jason Chaffetz is excited. From Washington he told KSL News: “It’s a benefit to our economy and our national security.”

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thanks to hartrw for the link..

so we have northcomm and the cia centralised in colorado and god knows whatever else they may have been doing around DIA..and the NSA now in utah..all in the middle of the country..coincidence?..maybe.. :P

any other groups the readers know of who have moved to these central states lately?

401

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9 Responses to “July 2009: Utah chosen for new NSA data centre..right next to Colorado”

  1. It is smart of them– the coasts are too vulnerable. Virginia, the hub of freemasonic and government agency activity, is too last century. Up high in the mountains is the safest spot. I’m just surprised they’re so sloppy about all this showing on the radar… a kid could connect those dots.

    I don’t know of any other high profile agencies relocating there, but I expect to see more doing so in the near future. They’re preparing for something.

  2. http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1842789/halfton_lead_coffin_is_an_archaeological_mystery/index.html

    interesting…

    • yes indeed..wonder who or what it is

      “We’re very excited about this find,” Terrenato said. “Romans as a rule were not buried in coffins to begin with and when they did use coffins, they were mostly wooden. There are only a handful of other examples from Italy of lead coffins from this age—the second, third or fourth century A.D. We know of virtually no others in this region.”

      This one is especially unusual because of its size.

      “It’s a sheet of lead folded onto itself an inch thick,” he said. “A thousand pounds of metal is an enormous amount of wealth in this era. To waste so much of it in a burial is pretty unusual.”

      Was the deceased a soldier? A gladiator? A bishop? All are possibilities, some more remote than others, Terrenato said. Researchers will do their best to examine the bones and any “grave goods” or Christian symbols inside the container in an effort to make a determination.

      “It’s hard to predict what’s inside, because it’s the only example of its kind in the area,” Terrenato said. “I’m trying to keep my hopes within reason.”

  3. rio tinto LOL has the major cooper mine in Utah
    http://www.kennecott.com

  4. They’re also building a data center in San Antonio. They’re running out of room in the Ft Meade area and the local electrical grid couldn’t keep up with the power requirements. Plus after 9/11, then NSA Director Hayden didn’t want everything in one area.

  5. America in Iraq take care YOURSELF hope and pray YOU come home soon
    is Texas the only state that have his own grid ?

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