One of the best places to see the inner workings of the cloud is the world’s capital of apples. The tiny town of Quincy, Washington, sits roughly 150 miles east of Seattle off Interstate 90. Its location is no accident. Quincy is in the center of the state’s agricultural basin, perched near a steep gorge carved for millennia by the wide and rolling Columbia River, the largest waterway in the western United States. The town is powered by a network of hydroelectric plants, including the Grand Coulee Dam, the largest power station in the United States. It’s an ideal setting for what has become
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