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  • - [Narrator] Sweden's largest internet service provider

  • is located somewhere you might not expect,

  • below 100 feet of bedrock in a former nuclear bunker.

  • The Pionen Data Center houses some of the most

  • sensitive information in the world,

  • which once included Wikileaks servers.

  • They can help protect their clients information

  • under Sweden's Free Speech Act.

  • Inside engines intended to be for German submarines

  • are used as backup generators.

  • The design and style is the work of CEO, Jon Karlung,

  • who took inspiration from his love of films.

  • He says that the choice to put plants in the caves

  • was to capture the computer meets plants vibe

  • of sci-fi films from the '70's.

  • The plants are kept alive by grow lights.

  • The center has simulated daylight

  • and the waterfall,

  • well that's just for fun.

  • And while it may look like a villain's lair from James Bond

  • you won't find Goldfinger here,

  • just the 15 senior technical staff who run the servers.

- [Narrator] Sweden's largest internet service provider

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