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An Arctic doomsday vault
CGTN Europe
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10/02/2025
Deep inside an Arctic mountain is a vault that wants to protect the world’s treasures - including your personal data. For more on the @arcticworldarchive, just head to our profile or search for Razor Science Show.
#Arctic #ArcticCircle #Svalbard #ArcticWorldArchive #Norway #Data #DataPreservation #Memory #ArcticMemory
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I'm in Svalbard, one of the northernmost inhabited places on earth.
00:07
We're so close to the North Pole and I think you'll agree that this boat and that backdrop
00:12
create a really epic video to send back home.
00:16
And every day people all over the world are recording content just like that every single
00:20
second.
00:21
But where does all the data we're creating go?
00:24
Well I've come here to find out why in the future the Arctic mountains could provide
00:28
an answer.
00:30
We're going underground but the top of the mountain is 300 metres up.
00:34
So what you see here is the physical container which sits in the vault of the Arctic World
00:39
Archive.
00:40
So here you have all the treasures from the old manuscripts of the Vatican to digitised
00:49
monuments like Taj Mahal, literature, music, architecture, Nobel Prize laureates, everything.
00:56
For more, head to YouTube and search for Razor Science Show.
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