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The AI economy has a massive vulnerability

The AI economy has a massive vulnerability

Subsea cables channel data and power, but they face escalating dangers, and multiple incidents in the past few months have highlighted those risks.

Employees make submarine cables at Qingdao Hanhe Cable Co in China last year. Getty

The artificial intelligence-powered economy has a massive vulnerability: the ocean.

The digital world is connected by subsea cables, a roughly 750,000-mile (1,207,008-kilometre) network that could circle the globe 30 times. Laid as deep as five miles (eight kilometres) below the surface, these cords make daily life – and the global marketplace – possible.

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Original URL: https://www.afr.com/companies/infrastructure/the-ai-economy-has-a-massive-vulnerability-20250224-p5les6