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The Underwater Cables That Carry the Internet Are in Trouble


If you ask the average American, “where does the internet come from?” the answer you would most likely get would be from space, via satellites. Wrong. The vast majority of information that flows across the tens of billions of devices connected to the internet comes from the sea. Around 500 fiber-optic undersea cables carry more than 95% of all internet data, strung like 19th-century telegraph cables under the oceans. And they are very vulnerable.

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