Features Podcasts Family Video Comics Music Tech Science Books Film & TV Games ✚

Jill

InfoBunker: nuclear hardened data center

David Pescovitz at 9:56 am Mon, May 21, 2007

— FEATURED —

Book Review

The Man Who Laughs: grotesque Victor Hugo potboiler was the basis for The Joker

Feature

Eurovision 2013: An American in London

Book Review

The Twelve-Fingered Boy - mesmerizing YA horror novel

— FOLLOW US —

Boing Boing is on Twitter and Facebook. Subscribe to our RSS feed or daily email.

 

— POLICIES —

Except where indicated, Boing Boing is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution

 

— FONTS —

Tweet
Kindle
InfoBunker is a Cold War era government command bunker converted into a data center. The Department of Defense built it to survive a "Maximum Probably Event," such as a 20-megaton nuclear explosion. The 65,000 square foot, mostly-underground facility is equipped with a Nuc/Bio/Chem air filtration system. Secure N+1 rack co location starts at $850/month. Blogger Brien Tiemann was invited for a no photo visit:
Infobunker It's not my place to go into too much detail about what's housed in the bunker, as just to get inside under escort you have to agree to a strict no-photos policy (perfectly understandable); but suffice it to say that the simplex lock on the main hut door is only the very beginning. Many hardened, keycoded, and biometric-protected doors stand between the outside world and the data centers, including the self-sufficient power systems (six days' worth of diesel fuel; 17,000 gallons of water (for drinking and fire suppression); military-grade NBC air filtration). It's built to withstand a 20-megaton nuclear blast at 2.5 miles, according to the website, and I can believe it. Your data will be intact even if the rest of the Internet has been vaporized.
Link to Tiemann's post, Link to InfoBunker (Thanks, COOP!)

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

More at Boing Boing

Eurovision 2013: An American in London

The technology that links taxonomy and Star Trek