Observed arrival · 2026-09-23
The Human Proxy
A novel by Jacob Huibers, presented through a first-chapter excerpt and a signup for release updates.
- For
- Readers of literary workplace and technology fiction
- Worth noticing
- The opening log records an occupancy count and a remote hold that was not engaged before the fire-suppression system discharged CO₂.
Field notes
The excerpt's chapter shifts from a timestamped incident record to Marit Hellinga's first visit to Kobbersund, where a former copper mine now houses computing racks. Dialogue links the site's present infrastructure to an earlier bitcoin operation that nearly failed; the story identifies an 80-megawatt power line from a hydro plant as the company's surviving asset. The extracted text ends during a sentence about renting out the graphics cards, so further operational details are not visible.
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