Once finished, the NSA’s million square foot data center will be the size of 17 football fields, five times the size of the U.S. Capitol Building and 18 times bigger than the White House.

Baker believes this growth falls in line with the general expansion of the Internet, of communications over the past ten years – and the threat to our national safety has never been greater.

“The number one threat that we face as a nation frankly is not Iran,” Baker told Fox News. “It’s not actually the war on terror. It’s cyber warfare. It is the daily, astounding number of attacks against our government infrastructure, our private sector. The amount of economic espionage that’s directed at our country on a daily basis would stun the American public. So the NSA has both a defensive and offensive requirement.”