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Munich Hackers Rented an Old Bunker to Host Private Clouds
By Syed John
Cold War relics are now home labs for privacy diehards and synth musicians.
A hacker collective in Munich turned a decommissioned bunker into a private cloud and synth studio. Servers hum next to analog synth racks, and clients pay for "zero trust storage with reverb." They host privacy-focused communities and host late-night concerts inside concrete walls.
It's weirdly poetic. The same bunker built to survive nuclear war now protects data from adtech. And the music? Incredible. Echoes bounce off coffered ceilings while packets route through Faraday cages.
We keep repurposing relics, but this one feels especially fitting. Cold War paranoia meets modern encryption, set to modular beats. Sign me up.