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Utah Data Center is Expanding

Inherency: UDC is only expanding now


Strasenburgh 15 (Audrey, Contributor, Cache Valley Daily News, “C7 initiates plans to expand its Utah data center,” Cache Valley Daily News, Saturday, June 20, 2015 5:00 am http://www.cachevalleydaily.com/news/article_d053828c-16c0-11e5-a454-e31e75cbc16c.html)

Bluffdale, UT-based data center operator C7 Data Centers recently announced the beginning of Phase 2 constructions at its flagship Granite Point II Utah data center. According to a May 22 Data Center Knowledge article, Phase 2 will add an additional 30,000 square feet to C7's facility, and is projected to be completed by October 2015. Currently, the company's 35,000 square-foot facility, which opened in 2013, is nearing its capacity. In addition to upping its data capacity, C7 will expand its data center's power capacity during Phase 2 construction. When Phase 2 is complete, C7's Granite Point campus will boast more than 11 megawatts of power capacity to serve the 250,000 square-foot campus. The company has an additional onsite substation planned for 2016, which will add more than 20 megawatts of power capacity, TechRockies reports. The Granite Point data center's location in the cold Utah desert provides an advantage for efficiently keeping its servers cool. The server manufacturing industry, a $14 billion economic powerhouse, is notorious for creating machines that can generate enough heat energy to warm several homes. The center employs a combination of ambient air and cold air containment and actuated cooling to regulate its server room temperatures. And because of Granite Point's cooling efficiencies, C7 reports it can deliver as much as 75 - 80% of its power capacity to the critical load versus the industry average of 50 to 60%. Over the last few years, Utah has become a prime location for data centers, given its low energy rates, ambient air cooling capabilities and low risk profile for new ventures. C7 CEO Wes Swenson said Granite Point II stands apart from its competition as a result of Utah's favorable climate for data centers. “Granite Point II is an extreme departure in data center design from the typical industry standard; in its aesthetic, ‘just in time’ effectiveness and efficiency in provisioning and cooling,” Swenson said in a release. “We have had an overwhelming response to the product; it’s not like anything else in the market.”

The UDC is an iconic national symbol that holds all personal communication


Shado 14 (Sean, Reporter for CloudWedge Magazine, “An Overview of the NSA’s Utah Data Center” Cloud Wedge Magazine, Dec 9, 2014 http://www.cloudwedge.com/4891-an-overview-of-the-nsas-utah-data-center/)

Probably the most notorious federal data center, the USA’s National Security Agency operates what is known as the UtahDataCenter. The UDC has nearly 1.5 million square feet of facilities space at CampWilliams. The site hosts a data center that contains 100,000 square feet of floor space that can be used for servers and networking apparatus. The UtahDataCenter finished construction at the end of 2013. The total construction costs for the facility totaled $1.5 billion dollars. Much of what the UtahDataCenter actually does is classified. It is rumored that the facility has so much storage capacity that it could store exabytes or larger. In order to put 1 exabyte into perspective, the calculation breaks down into 1 billion gigabytes. What could the facility be doing with all of the memory? Documents show that the building was built to support the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative. Other analysts believe that the facility is being used to store communications data pertaining to those who are using online and mobile services. Depending upon who you ask, the UtahDataCenter facility is tasked for specific missions. According to a Wired article published in 2012, writer James Bamford mentions that the datacenter holds “all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Internet searches, as well as all types of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital ‘pocket litter’.” The NSA refutes that claim and in 2013, an NSA spokesperson mentioned that, “Many unfounded allegations have been made about the planned activities of the Utah Data Center, one of the biggest misconceptions about NSA is that we are unlawfully listening in on, or reading emails of, U.S. citizens. This is simply not the case.” While we aren’t clear on the true purpose of the UtahDataCenter, it is clear that this monstrous structure serves a distinct purpose for the National Security Agency. Because of that, the contingency measures that the NSA has put into place ensure that this structure would continue to function during the time of a disaster.


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