Posted on 09/15/2014 2:54:36 PM PDT by Kartographer
In Boyers, Pa., a recently opened 2,000-sq.-ft. data center has been purpose-built to protect against an electromagnetic pulse (EMP), either generated by a solar storm or a nuclear event. balticservers data center
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They are handing out Faraday cages of all shapes and sizes?
But the elec. grid/etc. for We the Serfs?...Too ‘low on the totem pole’ I suspect.
They probably intend to keep the voting records and the ATF’s weapon applications at this facility.
How much data can you safeguard with a measly 2,000 square feet?
“But why? Per some FReepers there is no such thing as EMP.”
Even though the effects have been PROVEN. That’s why we need some type of Electronic Pearl Harbor to get us our of drunken stupor. My preference would be blow to the outer islands of Hawaii. Close enough to fry everything electronic there (on the outer islands), but far enough to spare the major population centers. Then after evacuating 50,000 or so people out there we will have REAL WITNESSES that will speak for how ALL of their cars turned into Tesla Bricks, and (horror of horrors) their IPADS smoked, for example.
All data will be put on punch cards.
“New Data Center Protects Against Solar Storms and Nuclear EMP”
You don’t need protection against a solar storm. It manifests itself in power quality/availability only - so every data center that has backup power (and they all do) have this protection.
Now nuclear EMP is a different animal. 2000 sq. ft of data center space is not that much - 5 hardened shipping containers would come close to that.
Good marketing move though.
“Per some FReepers there is no such thing as EMP.”
But there are idiots building data centers that think otherwise. Not all people that believe in EMP are trailer queens.
“Even though the effects have been PROVEN.”
They have not been proven to the extent the Internet has spread terrible flights of fantasy, such as “ALL electronics will be destroyed!”
We know that extremely long wires are required to pickup and transmit an EMP electrical pulse, yet, the Internet just knows that even your heartbeat can be stopped by EMP because it, too, runs on electricity.
And it looks like Not all people that do not believe in EMP are trailer queens either.
Only because they make good money in IT, but the vast majority of IT workers are nerds.
P.S. And liberal. The vast majority of IT workers are also liberals. There are very few scientists in that crowd.
“We know that extremely long wires are required to pickup and transmit an EMP electrical pulse...”
Who’s spreading that? Do you know the field strengths associated with EMPs?
Like you are such an expert on EMP. What, did you read something on the Internet?
Some of us DO OUR HOMEWORK, rather than spouting liberal denial crap.
You aren’t qualified to do any homework on the subject. EMP has become a nerd religion on the Internet.
Reported.
What’s the matter, did I insult your religion?
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