Shhh ... the NSA's new data center may be open already - The Denver Post

Shhh ... the NSA's new data center may be open already - The Denver Post:

WASHINGTON — Don't look for balloons or a big "Grand Opening" sign outside the National Security Agency's new Utah Data Center.

The facility is expected this fall to quietly begin sucking in massive amounts of information for the intelligence community and storing it in the cavernous buildings in Bluffdale, Utah, according to NSA officials — and it could be open now even as the agency faces scrutiny over efforts to collect data on Americans domestically.

NSA officials declined to say whether the center is already online, but the secret agency isn't known for celebrating the opening of classified buildings.

"We turn each machine on as it is installed, and the facility is ready for that installation to begin," NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines said recently in an interview.