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Morbid question: If you want to guarantee 11 9s of durability in a world where nuclear war doesn't have negligible probability, do you need to start building data centers inside of nuclear bunkers? Would that even help with EMP attacks?

https://xkcd.com/705/

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Put it at the bottom of the ocean in shallow water, on top of a fiber optic line. You get free cooling as a bonus! Not sure about backup power, though.

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South Africa, we’re quite far away from global conflict zones and have a very low chance of natural disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes or volcanoes too.

Don't forget the great food and nice weather.

There is at least one such data center: https://www.thebunker.net/ Is it useful? Not so much. Your data might be safe but after a nuclear war you'd have a hard time accessing it unless you were also in the bunker with it.

Make that at least two. This one is in Iowa: http://www.infobunker.com/overview.shtml

There's one under Stockholm in Sweden too - might not survive a direct hit, but would probably survive anything that the network connection survives...

https://www.bahnhof.net/page/datacenter-pionen

You want a badass underground Faraday cage to survive an atmospheric EMP and if you're a target of a direct nuclear bunker buster, there isn't much you can do obviously. I have a hard time imagining what good would a working commercial data center would do in case of a nuclear war, though :)

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