Utah Data Center

If you remember last month when we did our big podcast on 10 things you didn't know about 9/11, one of the conclusions that we came to is that 9/11 happened so that the US government could push through the Patriot Act, and that seems to kinda like be, pardon the expression, the ground zero of America's entering into life as a surveillance society.

And everything that took place in the aftermath of 9/11 with the Patriot Act, and that led to the creation of the, um, at, at that time it was called the Utah Data Center.

Now there's dozens, if not hundreds of data centers.

Um, I don't mean the AI data centers, I mean the data collection storage facilities.

They have huge heads and a lot of intelligence.

And I draw the analogy to the Utah Data Center.

It's a government computer complex covering acres of in Utah that requires millions of gallons of water just to keep it cool and supposedly, reportedly, is recording every electronic transmission on the face of the earth.

Now, mere humans can keep track of that much information.

Start with one data center the government can't pretend is just about storing your cat videos.

And this data center is the NSA's Utah data center, codenamed BumbleHive.

I don't even want to read into that.

It was one of the biggest and most mysterious construction projects in Utah's history.

That's not reading between the lines.

That's what they are actually telling us that it does.

Former NSA executive Thomas Drake, a whistleblower who put his career and freedom on the line, described the Utah data center this way.

Quote, it is basically the government's dark net.

uh who brought the receipts saying that oh no and i know for a fact by the way how the nsa did mass um uh surveillance is they would tap in they would tap into the um cables the cables that were you know we have all the hubs in north america because we built the telecommunications infrastructure and so they would just do basically the giant scoops would be of all of the data coming through those hubs, including incidental American data, which never was deleted.

That data was sent to the Utah Data Center.

It's the largest server farm, I think, in the world.

It's run by NSA, previously known as Dark Star.