Frozen, mountainous, and remote, it's home to hundreds of polar bears and a couple of sparse settlements. One of those is Longyearbyen, the world's northernmost town, and just outside the settlement, in a decommissioned coal mine, is The Arctic World Archive AWA an underground vault for data. Customers pay to have their data stored on film and kept in the vault, for potentially hundreds of years. This is a place to make sure that information survives technology obsolescence, time...
