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NSA knows they need the storage, they didn't just figure out they needed to store a lot of data to perform a massive buy. It would much easier for the manufacturer to disguise 5% of constant purchases through various techniques, they could hide it in all sorts of ways. Also the NSA could set up shell companies to consistently buy output (frequently done during the cold war when USA needed to buy supplies from Soviet aligned nations, USSR itself). The NSA could hide behind major buyers like Google and Amazon. If the plant shut down for false reasons literally thousands of plants workers would know if was false. That wouldn't accomplish anything.