14 February 2012

NYC Telco Spy Hubs Converted to Data Spy Centers

The NYTimes today reports on the coversion of three of six or so Manhattan giant telco hubs being converted to giant data centers:

http://nyti.ms/wcRiUd

The latest conversion, at 375 Pearl Street, near the Brooklyn Bridge and Police HQ, formerly owned by Verizon and mostly empty, has been sold to a data center firm which claims it will be the tallest data center in the world.

The New York Telephone Company building at 375 Pearl Street, seen from the Brooklyn Bridge.
David W. Dunlap/The New York Times

Aptly, the tower is within the NYPD's Ring of Steel security zone as are a few thousand residents who don't at all like being Homeland Security pork sauages.

All the hubs converted to data centers have Homeland Security-grade security trappings: Jersey barriers, clunky planters, surly rent-a-guards, USDA-approved-meat badges for scuttling workers, a mix of real and fake CCTVs, idling black vans and limos and CIA-anonymous white delivery trucks spewing toxics and paranoia, and delirium by real estate brokers at the upsurge in over-inflated property values of hulks built by monopoly comms-patriotic-spies now helping protect the free world with data center taps. One giant was bought by Super-Leviathan Google.

375 Pearl's principal activity in recent years was to aid NYPD run its international spy operation protecting the downtown center of global financical corruption. NYPD was bribed into this role with unprecedented multi-million dollar donations by Wall Street titans and real estate moguls like the thugs re-building WTC, who got even richer than Croseus from the GWOT run-up and dare not let it die, thus, the richly funded campaign to bloat the threat of cybersecurity so that fortress data centers can be inserted into cowed neighborhoods -- themselves target-rich with ethnics and immigrants who cannot believe the failed fairy-tale promise of the US as an escape from obessively-patriotic snoopers.