Inside Iron Mountain's underground room 48

[complacent]

linky of coolness.

Computerworld - Down a road that winds through the rolling hills of western Pennsylvania, just across from a cow pasture, the bucolic scenery of Butler County is interrupted by a high chain-link fence topped with razor wire.

Cars entering the compound are channeled into gated lanes before being searched by a guard. A short distance beyond the security point, the road disappears into a gaping hole in a cliff face. The hole is sealed off by the thick, steel bars of a tall sliding gate controlled by guards carrying semiautomatic pistols. They are protecting a 25-foot-high passage that leads 22 stories down to Iron Mountain's main archive facility, which takes up 145 acres of a 1,000-acre abandoned limestone mine.

[sirwilliam]

Pretty sweet article...thanks!

[Mr Kleen]

Dept of education uses Iron Mountain. Or they did when I worked there a few years back.

[complacent]

Damn near everyone uses Iron Mountain. Or they did when I worked there a few years back.

[chicken n waffles]

isn't that where, you know, that thing w/ the thing a while back?

[complacent]

isn't that where, you know, that thing w/ the thing a while back?

yerp! one of 'em

[Sabre]

We used Iron mountain at NASA too.

Very cool article. I've always wanted to build something like this... just didn't have the money!

[Sabre]

BTW, that light beam into the room is AWESOME!