Data Centers in Strange Places

[0]johannacw writes “Would you house a data center in a diamond mine or
an old chapel? These organizations did, with great success; many of these
facilities [1]offer the latest in cooling and energy technology, among
other advances. ‘If you want an even more hardened environment for your
data, you might look at the aptly named InfoBunker in Boone, Iowa, about
an hour outside Des Moines. [...] The 65,000-square-foot, five-story site
is dug deep into the ground. No one gets in without passing though the
4.5-ton steel door and then a three-step process. A scanner uses radio
frequency to read the would-be entrant’s skin as a biometric identifier.
He then needs to use a keycard and enter a code on the keypad. This
three-tier security is standard for high-level military installations,
McGinnis explains.’”

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1. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9041000