Mr Khan said:
sethnintendo said:
Looks like a decent sized budget to me if they can build this huge data center for their servers.
"The planned structure is 1 million or 1.5 million square feet,[4][2][15] 100,000 square feet of data center space and greater than 900,000 square feet of technical support and administrative space,[3][4] and it is projected to cost from $1.5 billion[16][17][5] to $2 billion when finished in September 2013.[3][4] One report suggested that it will cost another $2 billion for hardware, software, and maintenance.[4] The completed facility is expected to require 65 megawatts, costing about $40 million per year.[3][4]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
"The storage capacity of the Utah Data Center will be measured in "zettabytes". What exactly is a zettabyte? There are a thousand gigabytes in a terabyte; a thousand terabytes in a petabyte; a thousand petabytes in an exabyte; and a thousand exabytes in a zettabyte. Some of our employees like to refer to them as "alottabytes"."
http://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/
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The budget for the data collection itself (likely such buildings are under the NSA's general budget) is only $20 million. For instance, it costs Twitter's archive company $6 million a year just for twitter, so imagine handling Twitter, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and MSN
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Well the data collection shouldn't cost too much. They pretty much just tap into the lines of Comcast, AT&T, etc and collect all the data. They then sift through it looking for keywords and phrases (pretty much profiling all the traffic). They only have to be 51% sure that the information is from a foreign person right?
