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Everything I wanted to know about undersea internet cables.

How many? How fast? How much do they cost, and who foots the bill? How much electricity do they require? How do we plant them under the sea, and how quickly, with what challenges? How thick are they, and how vulnerable?

Stephen Shankland’s CNET feature has so many of the fascinating answers. I’ll spoil one: “At any given moment, more than 10 cables are typically cut around the world.”

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