Today, this global surveillance system continues to grow. It now collects so much digital detritus — e-mails, calls, text messages, cellphone location data and a catalog of computer viruses — that the N.S.A. is building a 1-million-square-foot facility in the Utah desert to store and process it.
Giving In to the Surveillance State
by Shane Harris
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/opinion/whos-watching-the-nsa-watchers.html