{"id":210909,"date":"2025-04-08T21:04:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T02:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/simultaneously-burying-broadband-and-electricity-could-save-small-towns-big-money"},"modified":"2025-04-08T21:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T02:04:01","slug":"simultaneously-burying-broadband-and-electricity-could-save-small-towns-big-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/simultaneously-burying-broadband-and-electricity-could-save-small-towns-big-money","title":{"rendered":"Simultaneously burying broadband and electricity could save small towns big money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/simultaneously-burying-broadband-and-electricity-could-save-small-towns-big-money.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to upgrading electrical and broadband infrastructure, new research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst shows that a \u201cdig once\u201d approach is nearly 40% more cost effective than replacing them separately.<\/p>\n<p>The study, <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2949790625000308\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Cell Reports Sustainability<\/i>, also found that the greatest benefit comes from proactively undergrounding lines that are currently above ground, even if lines haven\u2019t reached the end of their usefulness.<\/p>\n<p>Co-undergrounding is the practice of burying both electric and broadband internet lines together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to upgrading electrical and broadband infrastructure, new research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst shows that a \u201cdig once\u201d approach is nearly 40% more cost effective than replacing them separately. The study, published in the journal Cell Reports Sustainability, also found that the greatest benefit comes from proactively undergrounding lines that are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}