Nuclear Bunker Houses World's Toughest Server Farm

Lanxon writes "Deep inside the Swiss Alps, a former nuclear bunker is now the ultimate hiding place for the world's most sensitive secrets — the Swiss Fort Knox. In a lengthy feature, Wired gains access to the server farm designed to survive a full-scale military attack. From the article: 'As we punch our codes at the checkpoint, the yellow door opens into what looks like a city of server towers, their green LEDs flickering as a technician in a white jumpsuit runs diagnostic checks. [Later], we are in a dimly lit tunnel next to what looks like a metal oven door carved into the side of the rock. "These are expansion rooms in case you have an atomic explosion outside," Christoph Oschwald, a retired Swiss paratrooper turned contractor, says. The thinking behind the rooms, he explains, is that if there were a nuclear explosion, the rush of high-pressure air would fill them through vents in the opposite side. Then, the vents would snap shut, trapping the air before it had a chance of damaging the fortress. "There is a lot of protection you can't see," he says. We stroll past an intricate network of insulated pipelines that carry water up from the underground glacial lake to the cooling system.'"

Comments

What secrets do the Swiss have?

[orphiuchus]

So is this where they store the schematics for their Swiss Army Knives?

Re:What secrets do the Swiss have?

[Amarantine]

Or Nazi gold...

I always thought Nazi Gold was a right-extremist radio station?

Re:What secrets do the Swiss have?

[Penguinshit]

It's also where they store all the cheese that was in the holes...

Not so tough...

[HockeyPuck]

Might survive a nuclear attack, but not some script kiddie and an admin that likes pictures of Pam Anderson.

Glacial lake for cooling?

[gatzke]

Underground glacial lake for cooling?

I thought it was the CO2 that was melting the glaciers in Europe, not farmville.

will it survive a backhoe cutting the data lines?

[Joe The Dragon]

will it survive a backhoe cutting the data lines?

Re:Wait.

[Anonymous Coward]

You wouldn't steal a car...

Re:Wait.

[antifoidulus]

Only the greatest space captain to ever walk this planet, Captain Zapp Brannigan. I mean with enemies you know where they stand, but with neutrals who knows. Best nuke them before they turn the world neutral!

Re:Way down on my list

[sco08y]

If things get so bad that Switzerland is getting nuked, then my data will be one of the least of my worries.

If a nuclear war has you stuck in a bunker for ten years, you're going to want your porn stash.