BBC News - Inside an underground data bunker

Filmed by Ramón J. Goni and Scott DuQuette
Edited by Ramón J. Goni
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Originally built in the 1950s as a nuclear bunker, Iron Mountain's 'The Underground' high-security facility in Pennsylvania, USA, is now home to one of the safest data centres in the world.
2,700 people, many of them government officials, work in the facility under a limestone mountain - which holds everything from classified documents to old movie reels and valuable photograph collections.
But there has also been significant expansion in one area of the business: the storage and backup of online data in massive servers, or 'cloud storage'.
Ramon Goni tours the tunnels of The Underground with its vice-president Charles Doughty.
Published on BBC NEWS (4/1/2010)
Producer/Reporter: Ramón J. Goni
Shot & Edited: Ramón J. Goni & Scott DuQuette

[@TrevorBrass]

Wow, very cool. I would like to see if one could get a tour of that place.

[@matthewcampbell4480]

Also, Day of the Dead was filmed in a mine in New Castle.

[@fred6059]

Tours are very rare

[@yakamarezlife]

Vary rare it's a secure facility

[@MrGonzdj]

They are simply telling you this is where your details will be held. They have your information and will use it for there business and the room the chap goes into is used to store info on personal, corporate or governmental. What is there business?

[@yakamarezlife]

Basically they store information so mgm,fox,sony, store all there masters they store music masters national geographic store all there papers and important items