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What if the Internet goes dark? The Web Beneath the Waves – The Fragile Cables that Connect Our World

October 21, 2025/

 

Acclaimed journalist Samanth Subramanian charts the geopolitical tensions, corporate power grabs, environmental risks, and quiet heroics involved in maintaining the Internet’s unseen circulatory system.

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If you thought the AWS outage was an inconvenience, a solar storm the size of the Carrington Event could knock out the backbone of the Internet

Every few centuries the Sun blasts Earth with a huge amount of high-energy particles. If it were to happen today, it would wreak havoc on technology.


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