Inside the Nuclear Bunkers, Mines, and Mountains Being Retrofitted as Data Centers

The document describes the repurposing of mines and mountain caverns into fortified data repositories—highlighting Mount10’s “Swiss Fort Knox,” Iron Mountain’s underground centers, the National Library of Norway’s mountain vaults, and Svalbard’s Arctic World Archive—as architectural responses to contemporary fears of data loss; it concludes with a brief on-site account of visiting a Cyberfort facility, emphasizing layered physical security and the cultural framing of data as a critical asset.