The NSA Data Center is bit more complicated than the usual commercial hotel or center, and perhaps is unprecedented, thus haunted by errata. It is composed of two apparently identical facilities, mirror images of one another, connected by an administrative block. Each facility has a data unit, a pair of 16-generator units, a bank of cooling towers, fuel tanks and appurtances. There is a single conventional electrical sub-station for the complex. It is it not known if both facilities were affected or only one of them. Nor is not known whether the power surges came from the conventional electrical power system or the generators, or from testing the emergency shutdown of the conventional and the kick-in of the back-up gen sets. Perhaps both powered up briefly simultaneously, overloaded surge protectors failed, excessive juice blasted the cables, panels, processors. The relatively small dollar amounts indicate that only some parts were affected. An odd feature is the banana shape, with non-parallel units, whether for aesthetics or to avoid some unknown richochet of parallelism so common in DoD and most other facilities. Imagine that the lack of parallelism, surely due to the conceit of crazed design architects eager to be different from insanely rational engineers, caused bizarre effects, or the engineers fought back with the customary make-work sabotage. This theory is most pleasing to this nuthouse designer. It fits the welter of new USG facilities worldwide which appear to have been designed by and for the bureaucratcially insane, aptly, expense not even considered, exemplary bloat essential, security bollixed to the max, national debt boosting cost over-runs and late completion obligatory for congressional inspection junkets, followed quickly by applaudable manifold jobs making repair of faults, corrections of errant design, IG investigations squelched and bigger appropriations next time. For evidence peruse the the bloated list of USG and commercial work by the data center architects, KlingStubbins. This is USACE and GSA heaven-sent pork unbridled by modesty of pre-911 war-winding-down pecuniousness. http://www.klingstubbins.com/clientlist/clientlist_alphabetical.html Then see the twisted edifice psycholpathology spread: the mirror-funhouse new headquarters for Canadian Communications Security Establishment in which the architects have been Boozed-Allened to barbarize disorienting havoc in concert with the agency's mission to cackle and banshee at the humongous wastage: http://www.hdrinc.com/portfolio/communications-security-establishment-canada... This is what has come from the massively copulating Internet, data, metadata, teradata, supercalifornication data. Imaginary only to be sure, processors idled, generators asleep, power errantly dribbling like release of Snowden's imaginary booze distillery.