Amazon competitors, like Google and Microsoft, already study these things through their mapping products.
Amazon Atlas: The “Highly Confidential” locations of Amazon's data centers
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So?
That is the connection to government transparency. The CIA is storing massive amounts of our data somewhere, so shouldn't we have the right to know where?
That isn't the only reason. Amazon, Facebook, and Google are working to take over all kinds of public information services. The very transparency of government is at risk.
I keep harping on this public/private partnership that is being used to turn us into serfs. If laws prevent government from doing something, they simply push it to the private sector--they destroy our privacy and our freedom of speech. If corporations are prevented by law or by ethics from doing something, they shift it to government to enforce it on us using their monopoly on the use of force or via extraction by taxation either directly or in the form of currency devaluation.
These entities could be used to uplift us, but instead we are getting a variation of what the typical Chinese citizen is up against--abject cruelty and neo-serfdom.
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I thought the datacenters on Corvin were newer; I've spent a lot of time at the Walsh Ave ones next to Nvidia and Corvin stuff looked new.
I just checked and you are correct. I guess they probably leveled the old building, which was 3030 Corvin. Anyone that was there in the mid 2000s remembers when Facebook heated the place up and they had box fans every where, an extra generator parked in the parking lot, etc.
Makes sense, I never visited that area until a job I started in 2011.
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Which reminds me of the article on HN a few months/years back about how you could identify most spies because they all appeared the same way in embassy listings (which was all public information). With a lot of things like this, you're really squatting at a particular point in the effort-reward curve. You're not going to make something of this scale absolutely secret; there are hundreds of people involved, deliveries…
>"Which reminds me of the article on HN a few months/years back about how you could identify most spies because they all appeared the same way in embassy listings (which was all public information)." Might you have a link to this post?
"How to Spot a Spook": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14335310