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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A state panel has ordered that information detailing how much water the NSA Utah Data Center uses be given to the Salt Lake Tribune.
The committee enforcing the state's open-records law on Wednesday voted 5-0 to order the city of Bluffdale to release the documents.
Bluffdale sells water to the National Security Agency's data center on the southern border of the city. It had earlier denied a records request from the newspaper after officials argued releasing the documents could threaten the site's security.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/1mjBoil) the warehouse is thought to include troves of data collected under NSA surveillance.
Other government records indicate the massive center uses over 1 million gallons of water per day to cool its computer systems.
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