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NSA issues highlight need for renewable data
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Meredith Courtemanche Published: 13 Nov 2013
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Meredith Courtemanche Published: 13 Nov 2013
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Bluffdale, the National Security Agency's $1.5 billion data center in Utah -- its largest in the U.S.
-- has been plagued by electrical problems, which delayed its opening in 2013.
The National Security Agency (NSA) reportedly built its 1 million square foot data center in
Bluffdale, Utah mainly because of the abundance of cheap electricity. But that low-cost power
has proven to be unreliable.
Power issues have caused some major companies to make renewable energy sources part of their
data center power supply. One such facility is the Niobrara Data Center Energy Park, where
there is so much power redundancy built in, it's hard to imagine how it would ever go dark.
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