If the WikiLeaks saga isn't surreal enough for you, take a look at their new data center.
If the WikiLeaks saga isn't surreal enough for you, take a look at their new data center. Via CNN
A company called Bahnhof is hosting the WikiLeaks site from a literal cave inside White Mountain, near Stockholm, Sweden, according to news reports from Forbes, The Associated Press, and the Norwegian news website VG Nett.
The MIT Technology Review, where we spotted this story, describes the situation this way:
"If Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is trying to turn himself into a Bond villain, he's succeeded: the ongoing distributed denial of service attack against Wikileaks has forced his minions to move the site to a fortified data center encased in a cold war-era, nuke-proof bunker encased in bedrock. Really."
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The concept of placing data centers below ground is actually not as far fetched as this article from CNN would suggest. There are several locations across the globe where underground facilities, like outdated cold war survival bunkers, have been re-purposed to act as reasonable cost facilities for servers.
The amount of cooling required to keep the servers running 24/7 is assisted by the natural cooling temperature of the earth. And given all the important documentation that is required to be accessible and always held safe, WikiLeaks is not the only client who is likely using this facility.
CNN? Part of the Lame Stream media and looking for a quick & dirty low blow.
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ugh, some people should really learn to self-censor.
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