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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.'"

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  1. too bad all the lines in and out aren't protected by MichaelKristopeit129 · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... or doesn't anyone care about access to the "servers"?

  2. Re:It's the DATA that matters! by MichaelKristopeit125 · · Score: 0, Troll
    a coward defining "proper" standards... who do you expect to believe or respect your opinion when you take no responsibility for it? capitalization doesn't change logical meaning... it is a tool of the weak minded to ease their limited reading ability.

    you're completely pathetic.

    from the coward's mouth with regard to my original comment:

    "You're probably thinking that...."

    you're also an ignorant idiot. i was thinking what i wrote, and i wrote what i was thinking. nothing more.

    why do you cower? what are you afraid of?

  3. Re:It's the DATA that matters! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Jew.

  4. Re:What secrets do the Swiss have? by kenwd0elq · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ah, there's your mistake; "Nazi" stands for "National Socialist", so the Nazis were left-wing, not right. Of course, the current crop of lefties would VERY much like us all to forget that part.....

  5. Re:What secrets do the Swiss have? by kenwd0elq · · Score: -1, Troll

    Strange, but a LOT of lefties have had similar attitudes on racial purity and eugenics; Margaret Sanger, for example, or Stalin, or Lysenko... And anti-semitism has always been an equal-opportunity prejudice, all too common on both "sides" of the political spectrum. Especially on BOTH extremes. The problem is that the modern 'left" is better able to HIDE their prejudices, while the intolerant right is more open about it - and the centrists abhor both of them. Occasionally, of course, people like Jesse "Hymietown" Jackson makes a goof next to an open mike, and embarrasses everybody.