Locator: 49414AI.
I alluded to this once before.
I was reminded again when reading pages 365 and following in Alan Turing: The Enigma, Andrew Hodges, c. 1983.
China is in a world of hurt. Russia in even worse trouble. There is no question in my mind that the US intelligence services are literally decades ahead of where Russia is and years (if also not decades) where China is when it comes to Turing machines and intelligence.
Look at the LDCs:
LDCs:
- Horizon in the Permian: 2 GW; CoreWeave and Nvidia-backed start-up, Poolside; Mitchell ranch south of Fort Stockton; announced October 16, 2025; link here.
- Meta's Richland Parish Data Center, Louisiana: link here.
- Stargate, link here.
- Utah Data Center, link here. Multiple US intel agencies; lead agent is the NSA, precise mission is classified. Footprint: 1.5 million square feet.
- Texas Cryptologic Center, link here. Lackland AFB, San Antonio, TX. Lead agent is the NSA. Two squadrons of the 70th Intel Wing: 543rd Support Squadron and 93rd Intelligence Squadron. About 700,000 square feet.
- Meta: as of April 16, 2025, AI says the largest data center in the US is owned by Meta Platforms, located in Prineville, Oregon. Out in the middle of nowhere, northeast of Bend, Oregon.
- Ten largest, link here, June 18, 2023, previously posted.
Then look at the supercomputers over at wiki, and then the "TOP500," also over at wiki.
There's no way that "we're" not intercepting every signal and breaking every code.
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MOJO: The Top Twenty "Spy" Movies
In reverse order, #20 first (links are to musical vignettes associated with the music):
- Sneakers (Robert Redford)
- No Way Out (Kevin Costner)
- Argo
- Three Days of the Condor (Robert Redford)
- Bridge of Spies
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service (George Lazenby)
- The Imitation Game -- how coincidental
- The Ipcress File (Michael Caine)
- Notorious (Hitchcock)
- Mission Impossible -- Fallout
- The Lives of Others
- The Hunt for Red October (Sean Connery)
- Skyfall
- The Manchurian Candidate
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (my favorite)
- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
- The Bourne Identity
- From Russia With Love (Sean Connery)
- The Conversation
- North By Northwest (Hitchcock)
I can't disagree.
I could move No Way Out quite a bit farther up.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy could compete for #1, but certainly among the top five. One of the problems with this list, despite all being "spy" movies, the genres are quite eclectic. Hard to compare them against each other.
The Conversation? Simply amazing. I have to agree; I have no problem with #2; surprised MOJO caught that.
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A Musical Interlude
