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How Railroad History Shaped Internet History
It’s no accident that Iowa, where the first transcontinental railroad began, is now home to a huge data-center industry.
Beneath The Cloud
Exploring what the Internet is made of
A Visit to the NSA's Data Center in Utah
Why would the intelligence agency put its largest surveillance storehouse in the middle of a desert?
The Strange Geopolitics of the International Cloud
How cold weather, taxes, and sovereignty dictate the placement of data centers overseas.
Where the Cloud Rises From the Sea
The cable that connects the U.S. to the global Internet runs right next to a small coastal town in California. Why do so few of its residents have broadband?
What's Important About Underwater Internet Cables
Hint: It has nothing to do with Vladimir Putin or terrorism.
What People Mean When They Talk About ‘The Cloud’
When your data-center road trip is waylaid by rain, why not use the time to define your terms?
The Room Where the Internet Was Born
An epic American road trip—to see “The Cloud” in all its strange manifestations—begins in an old lab at UCLA.
'The Cloud' and Other Dangerous Metaphors
Contemporary ideas about data and privacy are tied up inextricably with language choices.
The Cloud's My-Mom-Cleaned-My-Room Problem
Welcome to the era of parental computing, or how the cloud makes children of us all