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Article: Commentary: Let's offer our Intel to the NSA
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- Colorado Springs Business Journal
- Article date:
- October 30, 2009
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The National Security Agency wants to spend more than $1 billion
to build a 1-million-square foot facility in Utah.
Utah?
Why not Colorado Springs?
There's a vacant little 1.7 million-square-foot parcel up on
Garden of the Gods Road where a little business called Intel used to
be.
Could the Intel building be adapted to house the NSA? It could
pay off by bringing 1,200 jobs to the area and boosting local
construction companies.
I am not a construction specialist by any means, but at first
blush the needed footage seems to be a fit.
The cost of the Intel facility is about $100 million.
Why should the government waste all that money when Colorado
Springs has a fire sale?
I asked Mike ...