NSA switches to cooling its data center with sewage following the example of Google

On Habré, many times they wrote about the US National Security Agency, talking about the methods of collecting information by this organization. Somehow on Habré was published and the post that the NSA is now simply unable to cope with the flow of information coming to the agency - just not enough resources to analyze and store data. Apparently, in order to expand their own capabilities, the leadership of the NSA decided to build a new data center (anyone who is not facing a budget crisis, it is the NSA).

The most interesting thing is that the NSA is going to use "green" technologies in the new data center. For example, cooling data center sewage.
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The NSA data center is being built in Maryland, and it is here that it is planned to use about 19 million liters of treated wastewater per day. An agreement has already been signed with Howard County, which provides for the use of wastewater to cool the NSA data center. Without this agreement, the cleaned stock would be dumped into the nearest river immediately after cleaning.

It is worth noting that only to create a new pumping station, which will take water for cooling the agency's data center, requires 40 million US dollars. The data center itself, which is being built at Fort Meade, will be launched only in 2016. But the total cost of this data center is 860 million US dollars.

The facility will occupy an area of ​​55 thousand square meters and consume about 60 megawatts of energy.

Sewage cooling agency “spied on” Google - the corporation uses this technology in its data center near Atlanta. In addition, a similar cooling system is used by the “Corporation of Good” in the Belgian data center, where wastewater for cooling equipment is taken from industrial waste channels, while chillers are not used at all. To cool the already heated water, specialized cooling towers are built, where the temperature of the water falls to the set value.

And yes, right now, the NSA is building another major data center in Utah, for the construction of which 1.5 billion US dollars have already been allocated. This object will occupy an area of ​​about 93 thousand square meters.

Via datacenterknowledge