12 Ways Science Fiction Became Fact in 2013

Given the continuing revelations about the NSA’s Orwellian surveillance — from its metadata collection, to its collaboration with phone companies, to its monitoring of porn sites and online games — the agency’s new Utah Data Center may not be a force for good. Even so, the sheer scale of the NSA’s $2 billion clandestine facility, which was completed in late 2013, makes it a dystopian technological wonder.

According to Wired, the self-sustaining data center contains 100,000 square feet of space for servers and 900,000 square feet of offices for “technical support and administration.” The full extent of the facility’s storage is unclear, but whistleblower William Binney estimated that it’s on the scale of zettabytes, enough to store 36,000,000 years of HD video — or every recordable conversation the NSA can get its hands on, as the case may be.

There’s no word yet on whether, or where, precogs’ bathtubs will be placed.

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