NSA Wasting Tax Dollars in DataCenter Blunders

The NSA is good at snooping on data but not so good when it comes to plugging in computers. Fires and shorts at their new Utah datacenter is wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars in fried and broken equipment.

From FoxNews here:

Chronic electrical surges at the massive new data-storage facility central to the National Security Agency’s spying operation have destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of machinery and delayed the center’s opening for a year, according to project documents and current and former officials.

There have been 10 meltdowns in the past 13 months that have prevented the NSA from using computers at its new Utah data-storage center, slated to be the spy agency’s largest, according to project documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

One project official described the electrical troubles—so-called arc fault failures—as “a flash of lightning inside a 2-foot box.” These failures create fiery explosions, melt metal and cause circuits to fail, the official said.

So not only is the NSA spying on us, they are setting our tax dollars, literally, on fire.