Elon Musk has set his sights on an old limestone mine in Cherry Township, Pennsylvania, operated by Iron Mountain, as a potential solution to speed up the federal employee retirement process. The mine’s cool temperature and low humidity levels make it an ideal location for preserving items, including federal paperwork. Musk recently expressed his astonishment at the manual, paper-based process used to process retirements, involving 700+ mine workers processing ~10,000 applications per month underground.
Musk’s interest in the mine stems from his belief that the manual process is inefficient and limits the number of retirements that can be processed each month. He highlighted the dependency on the speed of the mine shaft elevator as a bottleneck in the process. Beyond federal paperwork, the mine also stores priceless treasures, original master copies of classic movies, historical photographs, and data servers for various businesses.
The potential for repurposing the workforce currently employed in the mine to more productive roles has caught Musk’s attention, as he sees an opportunity to improve efficiency and contribute to the nation’s economy in a more meaningful way. Musk’s interest in modernizing the retirement paperwork process could lead to significant changes at the facility and potentially pave the way for innovations in other industries as well.
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