Center to build Utah’s economy, patriotic reputation
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Camp Williams » The creation of up to 10,000 construction jobs alone makes the Utah Data Center a great project for the state...
...As Maj. Gen. Brian Tarbet, head of the Utah National Guard, put it: “This will be an important link in intelligence and defense systems to find, fix and kill enemies and to protect American citizens.”
The facility, scheduled for completion in October 2013, will occupy 1 million square feet of space on 240 acres of Camp Williams’ property on the Salt Lake-Utah county line.
Its nerve center will be 100,000 square feet of climate-controlled computer space, where U.S. intelligence agencies will collect information that will be used to protect national security networks and help the U.S. Department of Homeland Security provide warnings about cybersecurity threats.
Accomplishing that on an accelerated timetable requires a massive investment in infrastructure — everything from the 65 megawatts of electricity needed for the computers and their cooling systems to the perimeter security system that will protect the facility from attack...
...Tarbet said his facility was selected as the Utah Data Center site because, “Utah and Camp Williams made the best case for taxpayers to put it here,” a boast validated later by Brig. Gen. Peter “Duke” DeLuca of the Corps of Engineers. He said that while there are “at least 50 perfect states to build a data center,” Utah won based on results of a selection process that evaluated 130 different factors...
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