abstract:The Utah Data Center, also known as the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center, is a data storage facility for the United States Intelligence Community that is designed to store extremely large amounts of data, estimated to be on the order of exabytes or higher. Its purpose is to support the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), though its precise mission is classified.
The April issue of Wired magazine contains an unusual cover story about a big datacenter that the super-secret National Security Agency is building in rural Utah.