Re: NSA UTAH data center

Due diligence for datacenters is hard. Power and network claims are easy to make on paper. It's easy to just pay for equinix or supernap, but how do you prove you can actually handle their reqs when competitive bidding doesn't involve setting up a proof of concept install and load test? Much less prove QoS or response time or other things that you can't possibly compare on paper. Though I imagine the fort's ability to vet SLAs in contracts and enforce those clauses is way beyond most legal entities. On 2013-10-09, at 05:57, Chris Olesch wrote:

That datacenter has been open 8 days and already a crisis. I find it hard to believe they can compare themselves against facilities like Equinix. Especially if the NSA needs more than 10Mega Watts of power all to themselves. :)

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On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Lee Azzarello wrote: I guess inventing new math to break crypto has some physics problems.

-lee

On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Lodewijk andré de la porte wrote:

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The massive quantum computer has unpredictable power consumption.

2013/10/8 brian carroll

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Power surges 'cripple NSA data centre' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24443266

"It said civil contractors were confident the problem had been solved but a special US Army engineer investigation team had said the cause was "not yet sufficiently understood" to be sure that it would not happen again."