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From Ashburn, Virginia, to South Dublin, Ireland, the data centers that journalist Paris Marx visited all looked remarkably similar: large industrial facilities with loud air-conditioning units running to keep racks upon racks of servers cool. But it was the security measures around the data centers that struck Marx more than anything.
Tall fences. Security cameras everywhere. Locks on every door that required one of the few full-time employees to unlock with a badge. And in one memorable instance, standing on an Irish public curb outside a cluster of Microsoft-owned centers, there was an eerie feeling of being watched by men on lawn mowers, trimming grass that clearly didn’t need to be cut.
“It was just really staggering to me that it was at that level that it was so hard to move through these spaces,” Marx told me.
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