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A cable landing station building perched above a rocky shoreline

Technology

The machinery behind the product, and the people who keep it running.

Photo Essay

Where the cable lands

A new subsea cable comes ashore at Selkirk Point this month, adding a fourth strand to a coastline that already carries most of the region's internet traffic.

  1. The city runs on a spreadsheet

    Brackwell's building permit queue is still tracked in a shared spreadsheet fourteen years old. A 2.1 million replacement project was shelved last year after it failed to work.

  2. Dispatch

    Cooling the hall

    Arclight Data's new hall outside Fenmark uses more water each day than a fifth of the town it sits beside. A renegotiated permit has bought both sides an uneasy truce.

Arun Pelletier / Halftone

4 stories · June – September · Page 1 of 1

  1. Field Note

    A repair shop in the mall

    A new parts-availability rule requires device makers to sell components to independent repair shops. Six months in, one shop in the Corva Mall describes what actually changed.

    By Mira Halvorsen · 1 min