Swiss Fort Knox
Swiss Fort Knox are two highly secure data centers under the Swiss Alps that are designed to provide "long-term access to our digital cultural and scientific assets".Photo: Mount10-wiki, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Cave
- Description: data center
- Also known as: “SWISS FORT KNOX I”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Saanen and Saanen railway station.
Saanen
Aerodrome
Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saanen Airport is an airport in the Saanen municipality, Switzerland.
Saanen railway station
Railway station
Photo: JoachimKohlerBremen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saanen railway station is situated 610 metres northeast of Swiss Fort Knox.
Saanen church
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Saanen church is situated 640 metres northeast of Swiss Fort Knox.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saanen and Gstaad.
Saanen
Village
Photo: Alps, Public domain.
Saanen is a municipality in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is the capital of the Obersimmental-Saanen administrative district.
Gstaad
Photo: Patrick Nouhailler’s…, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gstaad is a mountain resort in the Bernese Highlands in Switzerland. The village is at 1050 m altitude, with local skiing only up to 2200 m, but it's linked by ski-lift to the higher areas of Les Diablerets.
Rougemont
Village
Photo: Leemburg-CH, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rougemont is a municipality in the Pays-d'Enhaut of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Rougemont is situated 3½ km west of Swiss Fort Knox.
Swiss Fort Knox
- Categories: data center and landform
- Location: Saanen District, Obersimmental-Saanen, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.48514° or 46° 29′ 7″ northLongitude
7.25436° or 7° 15′ 16″ eastInception
1996Open location code
8FR9F7P3+3POpenStreetMap ID
node 7622480928OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cave_entranceWikidata ID
Q520438
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Czech to Spanish—“Swiss Fort Knox” goes by many names.
- Czech: “Švýcarský Fort Knox”
- Czech: “Swiss Fort Knox”
- Dutch: “Swiss Fort Knox”
- French: “Swiss Fort Knox”
- German: “Swiss Fort Knox”
- Spanish: “Swiss Fort Knox”
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