I shared that Elon Musk revealed the federal government can only process 10,000 retirements a month due to manual paperwork handled at Iron Mountain, an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania. The mine, a vast data center with a geothermal cooling system, limits the retirement processing speed based on how quickly the mine shaft elevator operates. Despite spending $106 million to digitize the process, a 2021 report noted that the government reverted to the outdated methods established in 1977.
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NEW: Elon Musk says the maximum amount of people who can retire from the federal government in a month is 10,000 because the paperwork is done manually at an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania.
The mine in question is Iron Mountain.
"The speed at which the mine shaft elevator can move determines how many people can retire from the federal government."
Iron Mountain is a 330,000-square-foot data center more than 200 feet deep. It uses a 35-acre underground reservoir to create a geothermal cooling system.
A report from 2021 reveals how the government tried (and failed) to digitize the process for decades. $106 million later, and failing to do so, the government decided to keep the old process.
"$106 million later, the OPM facility resumed functioning with the processes established back in 1977," STWserve dot com reported.
Video Transcript AI Summary
Our Western Pennsylvania facility is a high-security underground data center ideal for banks, financial institutions, healthcare, and government. It features multiple security checkpoints, a 30-foot-thick limestone barrier, and a naturally cool, 53-degree ambient temperature. We offer customizable solutions, from caged to solid steel wall and Faraday enclosures. Redundant power systemsā€”UPS, EPS, generators, and diverse grid feedsā€”ensure complete system support. We partner with various network and cloud providers to offer flexible network solutions.
Iron Mountain is committed to sustainability. A significant portion of our power comes from green sources like solar and wind energy. Our unique cooling system utilizes an underground lake, transferring heat from our facilities to sustain 10 megawatts of heat.
Speaker 0: It supports many of our high security customers, such as banks, financial institutions, health care organizations, and the federal government. If you are a high compliance or high security need organization, this is the place to be. The Western Pennsylvania facility is a city underground. It has many of the same things that a city would have. It has fire and rescue teams and a store.
It has enough fuel storage to last seventy two hours without having to refuel. As we go further and further into the labyrinth, which is the facility, we reach the data center portion. There are more than six different challenge points before we hit the data center. These challenge points and these extra gates help with security and compliance. The 30 foot thick limestone and 200 feet of stone above the facility lead to natural weather protection and the ambient temperature of 53 helps the facility remain cool.
Iron Mountain works with our customers to design the space of their needs. Whether it's what you can see over my shoulder, cage material, or solid steel wall, Faraday enclosures, or coupes, Iron Mountain is there to support those customers. For each of the power feeds that are overhead powered with Starline bus, behind it are UPS's, separate EPS's, separate generators, and then separate power feeds coming from our grid. All of this designed to be able to support complete redundancy within the system. With a rich ecosystem of different network and cloud providers, Iron Mountain has a network solution that will fit your needs.
Iron Mountain is committed to sustainability. You can see that most when we talk about power. This facility and all of our data center facilities are powered by a % green energy. Whether that's through the solar deployments that we've put on our facilities, including Jersey, whether that's through the wind turbines that we've sponsored in Western Pennsylvania, a % of that power is coming from green sources. Additionally, this facility is very unique.
All of the cooling goes back to an underground lake. We pump and transfer the heat from the crawl units that you see beside me back to the lake and then pump that heat into the water. That lake can sustain 10 megawatts of heat coming from these facilities as it stands today.
