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2. Not directly related but Utah was so proud to gain this water gobbling NSA data center.

Wed Jul 28, 2021, 03:25 PM

Jul 2021

Where all that data they scrape up from our telephones and computers is sent for analyzing. This water is from 2014 and those of us who live in the far west, know we have been in a long term drought for at least the last 20 years that only worsens each year.

This article is from 2014

https://www.wired.com/2014/11/utah-considers-cutting-water-nsas-monster-data-center/#:~:text=The%20NSA%20brought%20its%20Bluffdale%20data%20center%20online,water%2C%20used%20to%20cool%20the%201-million-square-foot%20building%27s%20servers.

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