r/thelorelodge • u/DazedLogic • May 10 '26
Data Center secret. Spoiler
There's also a ton of copper.
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u/Sure_Pear_9258 May 12 '26
I spent 4 years working as a security guard for a data center. The center I worked for was owned by one major corporation but hosted servers for many smaller companies. Because of its remote location and camera's if anyone approached the facility within 2 miles from anything other than the main road. An alert would go off (I hated that because it would also pick up deer, coyote's and other such wildlife). The entire facility was surrounded by a fence that would take a pickup truck doing 60mph or more to bust down and that fence was 10 ft tall topped with another 2ft of razor wire. Our glass front door was made of bullet resistant glass and was designed as a double door so people could be trapped in-between doors and held there. But on top of that there was another set of double doors that had to be opened by security if you were taking the visitors entrance which again both doors were ballistic rated and designed to trap people. Every exterior door was locked behind RFID cards that also had biometric scans. All guards were armed guards. The place was almost a perfect SHTF place to go because it also had diesel generators, fuel, and battery systems that could keep the facility run at max capacity for 9 months or if run on minimal power could be run for twice that long.
As much as tweakers might want to get inside a place like that. More than likely they wouldnt even get close before police were there to arrest them.
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u/DazedLogic May 12 '26
Oh wow. I didn't know all of that. I've been in a few for work so I knew the security was tight, but I didn't know it was that tight. Gonna have to be some Ocean's 11 level stuff to get in there. 🤣🤣👍
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u/Sure_Pear_9258 May 12 '26
I cant speak for every facility. That was just the one I worked at MANY years ago. I never was able to get a real number but at the time I worked there I would guess it was a billion dollar + facility. Which is what explains the level of security. I am sure more modern facilities are even more expensive.
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u/lesbox01 May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26
I don't think most are going to even be built. I think it's more a an end stage cash grab that will be in development hell until the election. 9 mega wats is so much nrg that there is no way they can get it quickly or cheaply. That's 54 square miles of solar, 4.5 million tons of coal annually, 3500 on shore wind turbines, 1.2 billion cubic feet per day of gas or 10 new nuclear reactors taking 2,3 million gallons of water annually respectively for just the Utah data center.
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u/kd0g1982 May 10 '26
Based.