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Shrinking Arctic Ice Redraws the Map For Internet Cable Connections
Tuesday April 2, 2024. 05:14 PM , from Slashdot
'In order to meet the increasing demand, there's an increasing pressure to find diversity' of routes, he said. The Far North Fiber project is seeking to offer just that. The 14,500 kilometer long cable will directly link Europe to Japan, via the Northwest Passage in the Arctic, with landing sites in Japan, the United States (Alaska), Canada, Norway, Finland and Ireland. It would have been unthinkable until just a few years ago, when a thick, multiyear layer of ice made navigation impossible. But the Arctic is warming up at a worrying pace with climate change, nearly four times faster than the rest of the world. Sea ice is shrinking by almost 13 percent every decade. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/02/1516213/shrinking-arctic-ice-redraws-the-map-for-internet-c...
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