The Hidden Geographies of Digital Infrastructure

数字基础设施的隐性地理

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Subsea fiber-optic cables—carrying 99% of international internet traffic—follow 19th-century telegraph routes shaped by colonial maritime logistics, not contemporary bandwidth demand.
Google’s Curie Cable lands in Valparaíso, Chile, but terminates 1,200km inland in Santiago—where energy-intensive data centers draw power from coal-fired plants, undermining carbon-neutral claims.

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