Keep your data safe from the apocalypse in an Arctic mineshaft

Norway’s famous doomsday seed vault is getting a new neighbor. It’s called the Arctic World Archive, and aims to do for data what the Svalbard Global Seed Vault has done for crop samples — provide a remote, impregnable home in the Arctic permafrost, safe from threats like natural disaster and global conflicts.But while the Global Seed Vault is (partially) funded by charities who want to preserve global crop diversity, the World Archive is a for-profit business, created by Norwe