Underground Bureaucracy: Elon Musk and DOGE Reveal Retirement System with Paper Records Stored in US Mine

The head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Elon Musk, has set his sights on a political target: a former limestone mine in Pennsylvania that is now used as a retirement document processing center. Known as Iron Mountain West, this underground facility, located 220 feet below the surface in Butler County, stores all the paperwork for the US federal employee retirement system. Here’s how the facility works and how DOGE plans to automate it: