If every byte of information on the inteet needs a physical location where it’s stored, one of the safest places to keep this data might be inside a Swiss mountain. (Carlo Pisani, swissinfo.ch) Around 80 kilometres from Zurich it is one of the largest Swiss military bunkers ever built. In 2011 the bunker was converted into a data centre that’s now run by the company Deltalis. Located close to one of Europe’s major inteet backbones – the cables ruing under the motorway between Milan and Zurich – it benefits from fast response times over the inteet, or low latency. Given Switzerland’s reputation for stability and relatively restrictive laws on data secrecy (the Swiss authorities are only allow...
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