I think you mean repeated uncritically by NYT. It doesn't even make sense, as reported. Yes, maybe to get into the cage in a shared DC, but not individual serve

I think you mean repeated uncritically by NYT. It doesn't even make sense, as reported. Yes, maybe to get into the cage in a shared DC, but not individual servers, and it turns out neither was necessary. That's a rehash of an old Google story. Another bit of misreporting (e.g. The Verge) is that this was "one of its main US data centers in California" when there's no such thing. The seriously big heaps of hardware are elsewhere and they're not shared, so there are no cages to force entry into. I've been in one; no cages in sight. I know which facility they're talking about, and its only distinguishing characteristic is that it's close to where relevant people live.