Quantum computers may soon be able to crack encryption methods in use today, so plans are already under way to replace them with new, secure algorithms. Now it seems the US National Security Agency may be undermining that process
Because they have the space. It’s hard for us Europeans to understand. In places where they don’t, they certainly go below ground - look at Microsoft’s parking garage in Redmond.
My office complex is nearly 1 km from one end to the other and a whopping three stories tall, and the third floor is much smaller than the bottom two. If you count the parking lots, it’s almost twice as big.
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Because they have the space. It’s hard for us Europeans to understand. In places where they don’t, they certainly go below ground - look at Microsoft’s parking garage in Redmond.
So the question, then, is why build up at all. I’m guessing since this is the NSA lowering surface area for security was a factor.
It’s an abundant resource curse; land is the resource that is wasted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
My office complex is nearly 1 km from one end to the other and a whopping three stories tall, and the third floor is much smaller than the bottom two. If you count the parking lots, it’s almost twice as big.