underground is good for the records
we’ve got a constant temperature a
constant relative humidity and the
seasons don’t change a lot of folks when
they come here perhaps yourself included
they have a preconceived notion I’m
going underground
the roof is going to be very low there’s
going to be stalagmites and stalactites
you know and that’s in a cave certainly
this is a mine so this is a hundred
percent man-made and we tried to create
an office environment a work environment
that’s going to be comfortable for the
couple thousand folks that come here
every day let us face without panic the
reality of our times the fact that atom
bombs may someday be dropped on our
cities it was at the peak of the Cold
War and Russian said the bomb we had the
bomb folks were concerned of nuclear
attack so the defense industry went to
their primary defense contractor who was
US Steel and said that you should take
precautions for the preservation of your
vital information so they sent about the
task of trying to find what was then
called a hardened location underground
and looked at dozens of mines that US
Steel operated and settled upon this one
the facility that we’re in is enormous
we operate now in about a hundred and
forty five acres of space the mine is
about a thousand acres it’s really like
an underground city
well we can’t get into the details as to
who the clients are they certainly would
include all of the major motion picture
film studios as well as the studios that
maintain recorded sound so if you listen
to the radio or you’re watching
television or you go to the movies this
weekend there is an excellent chance
that the originals or the Masters would
be stored underground at our facility
our clients come here because they’re
looking for the protection of their
information they want it to be safe and
secure and we try to maintain and they
enjoy that quiet enjoyment of the
facility so here’s a good example of a
temperature and humidity controlled
vault it’s a small area there’s a small
dehumidification unit on the right-hand
side but this particular customer only
needs the temperature that Mother Nature
gives us so there’s not a refrigeration
unit that’s a coked-up to this this is a
new area that we’re developing for the
installation of generators you can see
on the left-hand side we’ve got one
generator installed so these generators
there’s twenty-six of them and they’re
only used for normal backup purposes
so in the case of National Geographic
their space is maintained at 50 degrees
Fahrenheit and a relative humidity of
around 30 percent that’s great for the
assets that are inside there and then
they have another room that the
temperature is 35 degrees even colder
and we need a lot of HVAC equipment
refrigeration equipment in order to
achieve those results what’s inside
there is determined by National
Geographic but I suspect that it’s it’s
really the crown jewels don’t have
anything frozen don’t have anyone’s head
inside the facility you know we’re not
offering those types of arrangements to
folks so our focus is on business media
information management motion picture
film or videotape audio tape paper
records the emergency relocation site
was a theme in the early 50s not as much
anymore as we’ve morphed into a site
where we’re able to leverage the
advantages of being underground which is
the stable environment and the security
of the single point to come into the
facility and go out we’re not really
open to the public we’re not really
accepting folks with open arms in the
event that there would be a disaster of
some sort outside there so in the event
of the zombie apocalypse you’re safe I
think we’re safe yes I think we’re safe
you
we’ve got a constant temperature a
constant relative humidity and the
seasons don’t change a lot of folks when
they come here perhaps yourself included
they have a preconceived notion I’m
going underground
the roof is going to be very low there’s
going to be stalagmites and stalactites
you know and that’s in a cave certainly
this is a mine so this is a hundred
percent man-made and we tried to create
an office environment a work environment
that’s going to be comfortable for the
couple thousand folks that come here
every day let us face without panic the
reality of our times the fact that atom
bombs may someday be dropped on our
cities it was at the peak of the Cold
War and Russian said the bomb we had the
bomb folks were concerned of nuclear
attack so the defense industry went to
their primary defense contractor who was
US Steel and said that you should take
precautions for the preservation of your
vital information so they sent about the
task of trying to find what was then
called a hardened location underground
and looked at dozens of mines that US
Steel operated and settled upon this one
the facility that we’re in is enormous
we operate now in about a hundred and
forty five acres of space the mine is
about a thousand acres it’s really like
an underground city
well we can’t get into the details as to
who the clients are they certainly would
include all of the major motion picture
film studios as well as the studios that
maintain recorded sound so if you listen
to the radio or you’re watching
television or you go to the movies this
weekend there is an excellent chance
that the originals or the Masters would
be stored underground at our facility
our clients come here because they’re
looking for the protection of their
information they want it to be safe and
secure and we try to maintain and they
enjoy that quiet enjoyment of the
facility so here’s a good example of a
temperature and humidity controlled
vault it’s a small area there’s a small
dehumidification unit on the right-hand
side but this particular customer only
needs the temperature that Mother Nature
gives us so there’s not a refrigeration
unit that’s a coked-up to this this is a
new area that we’re developing for the
installation of generators you can see
on the left-hand side we’ve got one
generator installed so these generators
there’s twenty-six of them and they’re
only used for normal backup purposes
so in the case of National Geographic
their space is maintained at 50 degrees
Fahrenheit and a relative humidity of
around 30 percent that’s great for the
assets that are inside there and then
they have another room that the
temperature is 35 degrees even colder
and we need a lot of HVAC equipment
refrigeration equipment in order to
achieve those results what’s inside
there is determined by National
Geographic but I suspect that it’s it’s
really the crown jewels don’t have
anything frozen don’t have anyone’s head
inside the facility you know we’re not
offering those types of arrangements to
folks so our focus is on business media
information management motion picture
film or videotape audio tape paper
records the emergency relocation site
was a theme in the early 50s not as much
anymore as we’ve morphed into a site
where we’re able to leverage the
advantages of being underground which is
the stable environment and the security
of the single point to come into the
facility and go out we’re not really
open to the public we’re not really
accepting folks with open arms in the
event that there would be a disaster of
some sort outside there so in the event
of the zombie apocalypse you’re safe I
think we’re safe yes I think we’re safe
you
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