NSA Says It Has 'Mitigated' Meltdowns At Utah Data Farm

The National Security Agency acknowledges technical problems at its new data farm. "The failures that occurred during testing have been mitigated," says NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines.

The Utah facility is part of an NSA "data cloud" that will collect, process and store so much electronic data that experts have had difficulty estimating its full capacity. The NSA won't disclose details. Analysts from the NSA and other federal intelligence agencies will access the data cloud from remote locations around the globe. NSA officials say that the increased intelligence gathering capacity is devoted to preventing and investigating foreign terrorist threats.