Dive Brief:

• The National Security Agency's huge new data center in Bluffdale, Utah, has been hamstrung during construction by a series of equipment-damaging power surges and missed its Oct. 1 opening.
• Army Corps of Engineers staff sent from Washington to figure out the problems also discovered issues with the air-handling system that is supposed to cool the computers inside.
• Officials have declined to discuss what is wrong and has caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment damage reported by The Wall Street Journal.

Dive Insight:

As recently as July, officials were talking about opening the giant data farm Oct. 1, but now it's unclear when the facility might start operating. The Journal said it was told 10 arc-fault failures in 13 months have melted equipment and killed circuits in the million-square-foot project that has a construction budget of more than $1 billion.