The cloud under the sea

[Kent Sharkey]

The Verge[^]:

The internet is carried around the world by hundreds of thousands of miles of slender cables that sit at the bottom of the ocean.

It's not all WiFi?

Highly pretentious intro and layout of the article, but a nice look at something that I know I never think of much.

[David ONeil]

Very interesting indeed! Thanks for the read!

Quote:

“The main issue for me in the industry has to do with hyperscalers coming in and saying we need to reduce costs every year,” said Wilkie, the chair of the ACMA, using the industry term for tech giants like Google and Meta. “We’d all like to have maintenance cheaper, but the cost of running a ship doesn’t actually change much from year to year. It goes up, actually. So there has been a severe lack of investment in new ships.”

They should use the term 'hyperidiots' instead of 'hyperscalers.'

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