Does anyone know what's inside this building?
Submitted 1 month ago by nyaskiez@lemmy.zip to [deleted]
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Godort@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
cholesterol@lemmy.world 1 month ago
kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I mean, at least they nailed the dystopian aesthetic
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
TIL, thanks! My first thought was that it might’ve been a telephony exchange center, data center, or other networking infrastructure hub. There’s a building in my city colloquially referred to as “the bunker” built with a similar hardened brutalist style that houses all the main network trunk connections for our state.
TomMasz@piefed.social 1 month ago
My father worked for Western Electric, the part of the Bell System that handled wiring this building (and others). I’m pretty sure he worked there, at least for a while. The amount of copper wire in that building is astronomical.
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 month ago
The amount of copper wire in that building is astronomical.
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WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Fun fact: there are some big magnets in there. I have a compass on my backpack and it had a lot of trouble when I passed that building.
nyaskiez@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
It would be cool if you could share a video of that
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Might that not be a case of the building having a monster concentration of ferrous metal?
Madison420@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Lots of high voltage and inductors which effect local magnetic fields. Probably not too many permanent magnets though, you can see the same thing at local switching stations of you try.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
it is a telephone exchange or wire center building […] used for […] telephony, as well as […] for competitive local exchange carrier services. However, it is not used for incumbent local exchange carrier services, and is not a central office. Its CLLI code is NYCMNYBW.
It has been reported that the building is used as a National Security Agency (NSA) mass surveillance facility.[1][2]
FoxFairline@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
The main server of EvilCorp.
Nasan@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Something something the redundant backups and hydrogen filling the room
nyaskiez@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Dr doofenshmirtz?!
tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I believe they’re referencing Mr Robot
Godnroc@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Apple. There’s no windows.
Banana@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Oh that’s just the Oldest House
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 month ago
The janitor is nice though.
Starski@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Here’s a great video on it
nyaskiez@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Hey this looks interesting. I’ll check it out
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
It’s a major communications connection hub and because that’s where so many data comes through, it’s also an intelligence base. Probably NSA.
qbus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s an AT&t switch building
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 month ago
New York telephone exchange.
edinbruh@feddit.it 1 month ago
Telephone exchanger. And as a consequence a lot of espionage occurred there, but just because it’s a big telephone exchanger, not because that’s its purpose.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Likely still occurs. Nowadays the equipment is different but most of the communications on the east coast go through thar building I believe?
BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 1 month ago
The Ministry of Love?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
NSA servers you say?
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I’ve played Wolfenstein The New Order. Probably Nazis.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Pretty much, yeah.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
There are at least half a dozen quality YouTube videos on that building. It’s a Comms hub/bunker and the NSA probably has an office inside where they get a tap on basically all traffic AT&T handles
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 1 month ago
That's where Immortan Joe releases the water sometimes.
nonentity@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Cube.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 1 month ago
No idea what building that is or what’s inside, but I love me a giant brutalist megastructure.
certified_expert@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s a big router
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
It’s a CIA/NSA building. It contains SigInt shit.
nul42@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Inside there is a glass box surrounded by 7 cameras and other equipment. Sometimes Dale Cooper’s doppelganger shows up.
huquad@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
It contains one of the missing palantir. Allows them to see anywhere they want.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 1 month ago
An artifact of that power can only be controlled by the director
Zier@fedia.io 1 month ago
It's the global "build-a-bear" factory, that the Lububus did a hostile takeover on.
cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
The CIA or NSA telecom data extraction building … Something like that, where all the internet gets analyzed in there…
dan69@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nearby metro systems central hvac.
bhamlin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The internet. All of it.
stoy@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Probably
toe@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Titanpointe.
webp@mander.xyz 1 month ago
The dinosaurs
Rumo161@feddit.org 1 month ago
Ministry of Magic
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s the building where the guy from the Netflix movie hosts his AR murder game
explodIng_lIme@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The Federal Bureau of Control
Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 month ago
Who the fuck did your onboarding, agent?! Did you skip over the part where you’re not, under any circumstances, to reveal the location of the Oldest House to the public?! Do you need another copy of that memo?!
edinbruh@feddit.it 1 month ago
Nope, the oldest house is just on the other side of the street
Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 month ago
Yep, other side, that’s definitely not just a red herring address that was invented for that interactive mockumentary that came out a few years ago.