This summer, on
a remote stretch of desert in central Utah, the National Security
Agency will begin work on a massive, 1 million-square-foot data
warehouse. Costing more than $1.5 billion, the highly secret facility
is designed to house upward of trillions of intercepted phone calls,
e-mail messages, Internet searches and other communications intercepted
by the agency as part of its expansive eavesdropping operations. The
NSA is also completing work on another data warehouse, this one in San
Antonio, Texas, which will be nearly the size of the Alamodome.
