Utah Data Center

[7] In August 2012, The New York Times published short documentaries by independent filmmakers titled The Program,[8] based on interviews with former NSA technical director and whistleblower William Binney.

Binney alleged that the Bluffdale facility was designed to store a broad range of domestic communications for data mining without warrants.

Privacy and civil liberties advocates raised concerns about the unique capabilities that such a facility would give to intelligence agencies.

[12][13] "They park stuff in storage in the hopes that they will eventually have time to get to it," said James Lewis, a cyberexpert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, "or that they'll find something that they need to go back and look for in the masses of data."

[2] Toward the end of the project's construction it was plagued by electrical problems in the form of "massive power surges"[25] that damaged equipment.

[25] The finished structure is characterized as a Tier III data center, with over a million square feet, that cost over 1.5 billion dollars to build.