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Doc, tell us about Iron Mountain!
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It was in the news for the way the fed is handling fed employee retirements. They have people working 250 ft below ground doing retirements by hand and keeping them in manila folders. So antiquated, as Musk and his team pointed out.
Iron Mountain is a business entity that took over old mines, limestone I think. It is a maze of tunnels and is cool as hell. You can pay to store media there and it is safe from deteriation that happens if stored above ground. Bill Gates has a huge room next to the room we stored media in. He stored original negatives and pictures that he owned the rights to. Babe Ruth, lots of old sports stars and movie star pics. Plus some politicians or big events like the Hindenburg crash. We were allowed in to see how they operate on one of our trips up there (Northern PA, near Slippery Rock). In this one facility I would venture a guess that over 1000 businesses rent a space inside this mountain.
The government has rented space from Iron Mountain for decades. Iron Mountain has multiple facilities around the country.
Iron Mountain is a business entity that took over old mines, limestone I think. It is a maze of tunnels and is cool as hell. You can pay to store media there and it is safe from deteriation that happens if stored above ground. Bill Gates has a huge room next to the room we stored media in. He stored original negatives and pictures that he owned the rights to. Babe Ruth, lots of old sports stars and movie star pics. Plus some politicians or big events like the Hindenburg crash. We were allowed in to see how they operate on one of our trips up there (Northern PA, near Slippery Rock). In this one facility I would venture a guess that over 1000 businesses rent a space inside this mountain.
The government has rented space from Iron Mountain for decades. Iron Mountain has multiple facilities around the country.
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I have a few friends that work for them they said the paper work is the tip of the ice burg they have planes and other big equipment in storage to every thing is climate controlled and have backup power to make sure it stays that way.
You call them they pull the item and can arrange shipping or you can do it but you have to have the inventory and tell them what box or item they pull they don't search for anything. They also handle documents to be destroyed and provide a chain of custody list of where the item went and were it met its demise and you can meet the item to confirm its deposition.
You call them they pull the item and can arrange shipping or you can do it but you have to have the inventory and tell them what box or item they pull they don't search for anything. They also handle documents to be destroyed and provide a chain of custody list of where the item went and were it met its demise and you can meet the item to confirm its deposition.
Inside the 'time warp' limestone mine that's become new target of Elon Musk's DOGE
By KATELYN CARALLE and LAURA PARNABY FOR DAILYMAIL.COMPublished: 17:37 EST, 12 February 2025 | Updated: 17:55 EST, 12 February 2025
DOGE leader Elon Musk has set his sights on an unlikely political target accused of being red tape: an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania that processes retirement paperwork.
Iron Mountain West is a data center located 220 feet beneath the Earth's surface in a former mine in Boyers, Butler County, where the US government stores all retirement paperwork for federal employees.
Musk brought the long-forgotten underground trove back into the limelight by name-dropping it during an Oval Office press conference on Wednesday.
'Because all that retirement paperwork is manual on paper, it's manually calculated,' the SpaceX boss said from the Oval Office.
'They're written down on a piece of paper, then it goes down a mine and, like, "What do you mean a mine?"
'Like, yeah, there's a limestone mine. We store all the retirement paperwork. And you look at a picture, we will post some pictures afterward.'
'We were told the most number of people that could retire possibly in a month is 10,000 because all the retirement paperwork is written down on a piece of paper, then it goes down a mine,' he added.
'Instead of working in a mineshaft, carrying manila envelopes to boxes in a mine, you could do practically anything else, and you would add to the goods and services of the United States in a more useful way.'
Something unexpected is causing political turmoil - an old limestone mile in Pennsylvania
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) leader Elon Musk brought the long-forgotten underground trove back into the limelight by name-dropping it at the Oval Office
Iron Mountain West is a data center located 220 feet beneath the Earth's surface in a former mine in Boyers, Butler County, where the US government stores retirement paperwork
The DOGE account posted photographs of the mine on the Musk-owned social media platform, along with the words: 'Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania.
'700+ mine workers operate 230 feet underground to process ~10,000 applications per month, which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes.
'The retirement process takes multiple months'.
Some 600 Office of Personnel Management (OPM) employees process federal employees' retirement papers in the data center, according to the Washington Post.
Their task involves transferring thousands of case files between caverns.
The system is done entirely by handwritten assignments on paper, which causes major delays on how fast employee benefits can be processed.
Several previous government administrations have tried to automate the process, but none have succeeded, according to the Post.
According to the Center for Land Use Interpretation, the government started using the mine in this way in 1960. It was excavated in 1902 and originally owned by US Steel.
Iron Mountain took ownership in 1998 and continues to lease space to the US government.
At the same Oval Office conference, Musk hinted which government agency he could be taking an axe to next.
Appearing alongside President Donald Trump, Musk revealed that DOGE has found people who are 'probably dead' still receiving Social Security checks.
Already, Musk has entirely dismantled USAID and targeted FEMA by having its four top finance officials fired for paying $59 million to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants.
Additionally, 40,000 federal employees have accepted a buyout Trump offered for them to voluntarily leave their roles in exchange for full pay through September.
Now, Musk's latest revelations about Social Security payments have sparked fears the program, which comes under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), could be the next to face the wrath of DOGE as it seeks to cut federal spending.
However, others are glad that an audit or examination of the Social Security Administration might crack down on fraud or mistakes and in turn yield taxpayer money back to the federal government for use elsewhere.
'Reexamination of Social Security – we've got people in there that are 150-years-old,' Musk lamented during the impromptu press conference as Trump signed an executive order.
'Now do you know anyone who's 150?' the billionaire asked. 'I don't know. They should be in the Guinness Book of World Records. They're missing out.'
'So, you know, that's the case where I think they're probably dead, is my guess, or they should be very famous – one of the two,' he concluded.
There were 71.6 million people who received Social Security benefits in 2023. It includes those who receive retirement, disability and survivors benefits.
Approximately 42 million of those payments are sent in the form of monthly checks to retired workers, starting at age 62 for those who took the benefits early.
In 2024, the maximum payment to those who took the benefits early was $2,710 per month. It goes up to $3,822 per month at full retirement age of 67 and caps out at $4,873 for those who waited to collect until they were 70.
Inside the 'time warp' limestone mine that's new target of Musk's DOGE
Iron Mountain West is a data center located 220 feet beneath the Earth's surface in a former mine in Boyers, Butler County, Pennsylvania.
Auditing and reviewing efficiency is a good business practice and is something we should expect from our governments. It's long overdue. I'm really interested in seeing if they audit the Federal Reserve system. I'm guessing there is a wee bit more than a little bit of corruption there.