I was standing next to an Iron Mountain van today in the parking lot for a greenbelt park and it got me remembering the company's strange Cold War genesis (mushroom mines that became data shelters).
I just caught up with the company's history and was surprised at how many entities they swallowed (part of Bell & Howell, etc).
And I read this:
The storage location in Dighton, Massachusetts was once a missile storage battery during the cold war.The best known Iron Mountain storage facility is a high-security storage facility in a former limestone mine at Boyers, Pennsylvania, near the city of Butler in the United States (41.093°N 79.911°W). It began storing records in 1954 and was purchased by Iron Mountain in 1998. It is here that Bill Gates stores his Corbis photographic collection in a refrigerated cave 220 feet (67 m) underground. Nearby, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management leases another underground cavern to store, and process government employee retirement papers.
Iron Mountain has additional underground storage facilities in the United States and the rest of the world. It stores the wills of Princess Diana, Charles Dickens, and Charles Darwin It also stores the original recordings of Frank Sinatra and master recordings from Sony Music Entertainment.Most of the company's over 1,000 storage locations are in above-ground leased warehouse space located near customers.
How long will it be until these sorts of things are stored in outer space? Because the planet isn't as safe as some might think. A supervolcano (to give one weird example) could wipe out all these things. I think eventually earth will be surrounded by its data-core the way Saturn has its rings. I think it's inevitable these Akashic records will girdle the planet.
I just caught up with the company's history and was surprised at how many entities they swallowed (part of Bell & Howell, etc).
And I read this:
The storage location in Dighton, Massachusetts was once a missile storage battery during the cold war.The best known Iron Mountain storage facility is a high-security storage facility in a former limestone mine at Boyers, Pennsylvania, near the city of Butler in the United States (41.093°N 79.911°W). It began storing records in 1954 and was purchased by Iron Mountain in 1998. It is here that Bill Gates stores his Corbis photographic collection in a refrigerated cave 220 feet (67 m) underground. Nearby, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management leases another underground cavern to store, and process government employee retirement papers.
Iron Mountain has additional underground storage facilities in the United States and the rest of the world. It stores the wills of Princess Diana, Charles Dickens, and Charles Darwin It also stores the original recordings of Frank Sinatra and master recordings from Sony Music Entertainment.Most of the company's over 1,000 storage locations are in above-ground leased warehouse space located near customers.
How long will it be until these sorts of things are stored in outer space? Because the planet isn't as safe as some might think. A supervolcano (to give one weird example) could wipe out all these things. I think eventually earth will be surrounded by its data-core the way Saturn has its rings. I think it's inevitable these Akashic records will girdle the planet.
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