Utah city ordered to release NSA center water usage numbers
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}FILE: An aerial view of the NSA's Utah Data Center in Bluffdale, Utah. (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.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Salt Lake Tribune reports 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.