📅 - Rich Banta was in the early stages of designing a data center last year, when he first learned about the possibility of electromagnetic pulse from space weather or even from human wrongdoers. He stopped the project dead in its' tracks and decided to redesign the facility with protection from a potential EMP.
While the EMP community may not be very large, it does consist of government workers, scientists, private-sector individuals and elected officials. This community is concerned that a geomagnetic storm similar to the one in 1921 could have a horrible effect on the infrastructure of the nation today.
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