Symantec Corp. has today announced the purchase of two acres of
land on the Earth's moon as the build site for its new state-of-the-art 'Data
Centre of the Future'.
"Symantec has a long history of preventing data from disappearing into black
holes. This move is the culmination of a vision to move Symantec from Cyberspace
to real space" said Buzz Norton, a spokesperson from Symantec. "This project may
be one small step for Symantec, but one giant leap for the next generation of
data centres."
The new facility will benefit from the latest green technologies for power and
cooling, taking advantage of the moon's lack of air and freezing temperatures to
keep the data centre cool and utilising solar light to power the centre. "This
data centre will be the greenest (or in moon parlance, the whitest) in the
galaxy and will run without an earthly carbon footprint" said a sustainability
expert too embarrassed to be named.
The lunar data centre will benefit from the next generation of security
protection since it will be built out of reach of earth-bound elements and
threats. It will communicate with earth via secure wireless transmissions.
Norton concludes: "This level of security will totally 'eclipse' anything we've
seen before."
