After the revelations about her spy actions NSAThe service US intelligence, it appears that for the first time it is facing a very serious problem. The service declined to disclose how much water it uses in its new data center BluffdaleOf Utah, because he considers it to be one theme of national security and this has probably upset a lot of people.
Arstechnica reported that a new ruling issued by the State Records Committee of the city of Bluffdale gives the agency less than a month to provide municipal officials with the data related to the water consumption of the NSA data center in Utah.
The data center is already consuming huge amounts energy and too much water. It is estimated that it needs about over 4.500 cubic meters per day.
The NSA wants to keep the actual water consumption numbers secret, indicating that with the water usage calculation, one could determine the computational power and what the Data Center capabilities in Utah.
"Armed with this information, one could deduce how much intelligence NSA is collecting and maintaining," said NSA deputy director David Sherman.
