On This Nearly Deserted Alaska Island, You Pay to Keep Hundreds of Empty Buildings Wired for Internet
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Source: ProPublica
Published: 2026-07-20 19:00 UTC+10:00
Section: Regulation
Factuality Score: 100
Opinion Category: Neutral
Topics: Military & Defence, Energy, Labour & Workers, War & Conflict
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On an island in the Bering Sea 1,200 miles from Anchorage, Alaska, sits an abandoned house on an abandoned Navy base. There is no furniture, and the wind blows through broken windows. The last people to live here moved away long ago. Yet a bright orange pipe with a black fiber-optic cable inside runs from the outer wall down into the surrounding soil.
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