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On a nearly deserted Alaska island, you pay to keep hundreds of empty buildings wired for internet

Posted 7/21/26

This story was originally published by ProPublica and Anchorage Daily News. 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 […]

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