I don't understand the pretend secrecy. Why not just state openly they're rebuilding or expanding the bunker? Wouldn't it be obvious from the high number of trucks coming and going from the area (even if disguised within a shed) that significant excavation is occurring, or that a significant amount of steel and concrete is then being added?
It didn't take long for people to link a growing mound of spoil on a nearby golf course (East Potomac Golf Links) to excavations occurring at the White House.[1] A few simple volume calculations, and/or truck movement counts, is all one would seemingly need to estimate the size of the new bunker.
USD$300m also doesn't buy much of anything underground, especially at top secret military bunker pricing. Look at the cost of typical rail tunneling projects (much simpler and more efficient construction) for rough comparison.
Honestly. Actually on premise infra doesn't sound insane. Especially if there is say real air-gapped part of it. Or in general storing information in place that at least feels like properly access controlled. To data stay inside premises it could make some sense.
And maybe NSA knows some attack vectors that we do not. So even geographically close by might have risks involved.
Anybody sane in office would build the same kind of thing (hardened command and control bunker) but somewhere else in the area.
The argument for the whitehouse location would be "in the event of a nuclear missile headed for DC with little to no time to move ... " the POTUS could be moved straight down and have access to all that is needed for digital control, etc.
The argument against would be that's the one location almost guarenteed to get a penetrating atomic or conventional warhead (if anywhere) and it'd be better to be anywhere else.
That said .. any bunker or data centre might well be some distance away .. and the project is build a fast transport tunnel from the complex already under that wing to a new deep bunker some reasonable distance away.
I don't understand the pretend secrecy. Why not just state openly they're rebuilding or expanding the bunker? Wouldn't it be obvious from the high number of trucks coming and going from the area (even if disguised within a shed) that significant excavation is occurring, or that a significant amount of steel and concrete is then being added?
It didn't take long for people to link a growing mound of spoil on a nearby golf course (East Potomac Golf Links) to excavations occurring at the White House.[1] A few simple volume calculations, and/or truck movement counts, is all one would seemingly need to estimate the size of the new bunker.
USD$300m also doesn't buy much of anything underground, especially at top secret military bunker pricing. Look at the cost of typical rail tunneling projects (much simpler and more efficient construction) for rough comparison.
[1] https://golf.com/news/white-house-carting-dirt-golf-course-p...
I still don't get it, why would you need a data centre at the whitehouse? A 9-story deep one at that.
Honestly. Actually on premise infra doesn't sound insane. Especially if there is say real air-gapped part of it. Or in general storing information in place that at least feels like properly access controlled. To data stay inside premises it could make some sense.
And maybe NSA knows some attack vectors that we do not. So even geographically close by might have risks involved.
Trump.
Anybody sane in office would build the same kind of thing (hardened command and control bunker) but somewhere else in the area.
The argument for the whitehouse location would be "in the event of a nuclear missile headed for DC with little to no time to move ... " the POTUS could be moved straight down and have access to all that is needed for digital control, etc.
The argument against would be that's the one location almost guarenteed to get a penetrating atomic or conventional warhead (if anywhere) and it'd be better to be anywhere else.
That said .. any bunker or data centre might well be some distance away .. and the project is build a fast transport tunnel from the complex already under that wing to a new deep bunker some reasonable distance away.
I wish it was a data center, probably a bribe to a contractor though.
Went into expecting some crazy conspiracy... But found a surprisingly convincing and well researched story.