Thursday ceremony to begin construction at $1.2 billion NSA center

A groundbreaking ceremony Thursday will formally kick off work on the Utah Data Center, a $1.2 billion project. Nearly 10,000 people are expected to be employed over the next three years building the 1-million-square-foot facility at Camp Williams on the Salt Lake/Utah county line. The National Security Agency will use the climate-controlled environment of its computerized core as a repository for information gathered by different branches of the country’s intelligence apparatus, hence the facility’s nickname, “The Spy Center.” Salt Lake Tribune