The US Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract to a consortium to build a data centre for the National Security Agency (NSA) to protect sensitive information from hackers and nation states trying to break into agency networks.
Under the $1.2bn contract, the consortium will design and build a 1.5-million-square-foot facility in south Salt Lake City, Utah.
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The NSA facility, to be built under the government’s comprehensive national cybersecurity initiative, will feature 100,000ft² of raised data centre space for servers and storage.
The centre will also include 900,000ft² for technical support and offices, and 500,000ft² of support facilities such as an electric substation, fuel storage and a visitor control centre.
The data centre, with a 65MW power requirement, will spread across 200 acres inside Camp Williams, a 28,000-acre base for the Utah National Guard.
The consortium of builders includes Big-D Construction, Balfour Beatty and DPR Construction.
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