NSA and Microsoft had both been eyeing San Antonio for years because it has the cheapest electricity in Texas, and the state has its own power grid, making it less vulnerable to power outages on the national grid. [...] NSA wanted assurance Microsoft would be here, too, before making a final commitment, due to the advantages of “having their miners virtually next door to the mother lode of data centers.” The new NSA facility is just a few miles from Microsoft’s data center of the same size.

Adam Shostack here. Last weekend, I was at a Security Modeling Workshop, where I presented a paper on “Experiences Threat Modeling at Microsoft,” which readers of this blog might enjoy. So please, enjoy!

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