This project traces the historical and aesthetic contours of the relationship between the ongoing energy transition, the growing data center industry, and the formation of a reconfigured “user” as a planetary subject, through the Leif Erikson Cable (LEC), a renewable-energy powered fiber optic system currently under construction between Norway and Labrador. While telecommunications and computing have always produced the virtual subject we call the internet user, I argue that it is only as these infrastructures adapt to the changing climate through projects like the LEC that the materiality of the global network has become palpable to the virtual subject, and thereby reconfigured them from user to planet-user. First, I trace a genealogy of the planet-user through literature, art, and architecture, which reveals their descent from Romantic and utopian ideologies of mobility derived from the Roma and other nomads, as manifest in the contemporary figure of the digital nomad/“gypsy”. Then, in a process I term “deceleration,” this project grounds the planet-user in their materiality through a series of “strata” which investigate the motley local infrastructures of Labrador that support the LEC with similarly varied historical and contemporary documentation. Departing from the ample critical infrastructure studies literature about internet materiality, this project uses a single geographic path to provide a cross-sectional view of the interdependent and increasingly physical socio-energetic infrastructures which produce the virtual subject.