Miles from Nowhere - Stories from the American Buildout

America is in the middle of the largest infrastructure buildout since the Interstate Highway System. Hyperscale data centers — the facilities that power cloud computing, AI, and the entire digital economy — are going up in small Midwest towns that weren't designed to absorb them. Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. New Carlisle, Indiana. Stillwater, Oklahoma. Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. Places where the hardware store still closes at 5pm and the motels were full before the cranes arrived. Miles from Nowhere is a short-form documentary podcast hosted by Mason Reed — former ironworker, construction veteran, and the kind of narrator who has stood at the edge of a muddy field in February and decided to build something anyway. Each episode runs 12–18 minutes and tells one story from the buildout: a town that had to absorb 4,000 workers overnight, a project manager doing math he doesn't like at 5am, a traveling tradesman calculating whether the per diem is worth another month away from home. This is D