Microsoft, Yahoo, potatoes and the NSA

According to CNN (article link), Microsoft and Yahoo are planning on building data storage centres outside of Quincy, Washington. By all accounts a charming little town with a potato based economy.

Quincy has cheap land, cheap hydroelectric power and nice industrial parks to build data centres in. There's easy access by highway 90 to nearby Ginko Petrified Forest State park, and - oh yes - the Yakima NSA facility.

Observe: une carte (google maps)



Aah, nothing says 'we value or customers privacy' quite like building gaint private data storage centres near to a giant govt data mining centre. What will Yahoo and M$ store in these centres? They're not saying:

'My understanding is their objective is to increase their capacity for the Internet, search engines,' Snead said. 'All I know is there's a lot of computers.'

Still unknown is whether those computers will hold consumer information, miles of code or backups for data stored on servers elsewhere. Gellos declined to provide further details, saying company officials were still finishing plans for the site.

Comments

Secret Agent Man writes... HEY FUCKING DUMMIES....THE TWO POWERS AT WORK HERE ARE THE MAN AND A PLETHORA OF SELLOUTS!! THAT`S IT. WE`RE FUCKED, THEY KNOW IT, WE CAN`T DO SHIT. Happy Tuesday :) posted: 2006-04-18 15:49:01

0zzzzzzz writes... Jackson... Kleet is totally correct. You really don`t have a clue! I built all of those displays and the one with the most bulbs takes only 30 amps of power. Most of them take closer to 15 amps as as little as 5 amps. This year we will begin converting over to LED at ONE DOLLAR A BULB so we can save even our small amount (and cheap) power that we have hear. We DO NOT take for granted our electricity. We`re the ones trying to save it AND THE FISH because it`s clean, inexpensive and renewable! Second... Yes, sometimes we end up with our lights on a little past the first of the year. Nothing like you say. Possibly a week or two but maybe you would like to come and fire some of our volunteers. Personally, I think they do a pretty good job for what they get paid. And I can`t afford to loose them. Because I`m too burned out to go back to doing it all myself. ....Some people don`t have a clue. (And have an early Merry Christmas!) Scott posted: 2006-06-01 06:30:55

Don Simpson writes... And AOL is just down the street from the CIA in Virginia (and their logo is an eye in a pyramid). posted: 2006-04-18 08:23:03

Anonymous writes... I grew up in quincy. I can say right now that it is going to be a mistake. Quincy is NOT a ``charming little town with a potato based economy``. Quincy is NOT charming and Many families, like my own, had to quit growing potatoes because there`s NO PAY in potatoes. Let me be the first to predict all of the vandalism that will occur to the buildings. Spray painting gangs WILL do their damage. Microsoft and Yahoo don`t know what they`re getting themselves into. posted: 2006-11-14 20:57:33

Larry writes... all of you are wrong!, see, im actually working on the project..Im there 12 hrs a day 5 days a week. its a HUGE project..the first building is 11 acres and still growing..you can expect a small portion to be up and running by dec 22...aside from small labor disputes and crunched scheduling..its all going well... its a hotel server..with the hopes that the consumer, be it small or large businesses will pay a samll fee to store their datat there, in a safe and secure area.... posted: 2006-11-05 22:36:21

very writes writes... The main reason they are putting it in qunicy is the huge labor pool of mexican citizens that are available to work on the cheap. I noticed just the other day bill gates bitching about the new imigration laws and how it would hurt his company. What a drag , build it for the cheap ilegal labor just waiting to be exploited only to have I.C.E come in and ruin a good deal for him. It is really a sad deal cause we all know billy really needs the extra bucks. posted: 2007-03-21 01:43:04

Anonymous writes... That is understandable that cash makes people independent. But how to act if somebody does not have cash? The one way only is to receive the business loans or just small business loan. posted: 2010-06-6 17:24:48

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