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Read the article. It's not just data storage. Hundreds of people actually work there, processing the applications there, by hand, on paper.
by leereeves 2y ago
Read the article. It's not just data storage. Hundreds of people actually work there, processing the applications there, by hand, on paper.
- djur 2y agoThe article says they couldn't confirm Musk's claims about the number of employees.
- leereeves 2y agoSnopes hasn't confirmed it in 2025 but they did say that in 2014 the Washington Post reported that 600 people worked there.
- ceejayoz 2y agoSo 0.01% of the Federal workforce or so?
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- ZeroGravitas 2y agoThe facility website says they have roughly 1100 workers there daily, but those aren't all government since other work goes on there too.
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoHers a PDF detailing some of the audio and photographic professionals that work "down the mine" in the state of the art digitisation facilities that corporations have there: https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/ironmountain-c8dd68e9/media/project/iron-mountain/iron-mountain/files/resources/general-articles/s/stories-from-the-underground.pdf?sc_lang=en https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/ironmountain-c8dd68e9/media/pr... So why would it be by definition considered waste that a government has employees working on paper records stored in the same place? There is absolutely no reason to think this is ridiculous. These types of sites exist all over the world. Yet Elon Musk claims it's ridiculous and people now have to defend that claim?