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I'm pretty sure designing with the expectation that people might try to drive a truck/plane into the building is pretty normal for data center design. People ha
by swiley 6y ago
I'm pretty sure designing with the expectation that people might try to drive a truck/plane into the building is pretty normal for data center design. People have been aware of destructive people for a while.
- ChrisMarshallNY 6y agoI worked for a defense contractor in the early 1980s. I think it was 1983, just after I started there, that an edict came down to "truck-proof" the building. If I remember, 1983 was when Hammas blew up the US embassy in Beirut with a truck bomb. They put up those "anti-truck" columns in front of the doors.
- mywittyname 6y ago> They put up those "anti-truck" columns in front of the doors. Like a bollard? Or something much more substantive.
- ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago> bollard? I had to look it up. Like "double-wide" bollards. Made of concrete, in the front, and planters in the back (much bigger).
- 52-6F-62 6y agoNo doubt, but it's probably emotionally easier to work with that knowledge and attempt at foresight in the abstract, than how it would feel to receive a letter from your employer saying something akin to "brace yourselves".
- swiley 6y agoThis isn't a new threat? People literally do this all the time, you can probably find compilations of security footage of it on youtube.