While reading through some Fujitsu documentation I came across the following:
“Soft errors were formerly caused by alpha particles in the IC housing. This can now be precluded for the most part by an improved IC housing. Radioactive gamma radiation from solar eruptions is now the main cause of soft errors. In all probability, pure soft errors do not lead to uncorrectable multi-bit errors in a memory chip. Soft errors tend to occur by chance and can be eliminated for the most part by ECC. ECC memory protection is now a standard means of ensuring data security in servers. Single errors in more than 2 memory ICs can be neglected, since the likelihood of faults at identical addresses and at the same time is very low.”
This leads me to wonder if data centers can be partially shielded from gamma radiation?