Like most people I imagine, I am subscribed to a dizzying amount of news feeds that are delivered to my personal email; so many I have lost count and, so many I pay little attention to it, unless it has to do with data centers. One article in particular crossed my path earlier this past July. Titled, “The Internet Is Drowning,” the online article, written by Alejandra Borunda, was published July 16, 2018 on the National Geographic website at https://on.natgeo.com/2LmubxW.
The crux of the article was that fiber optic cabling “and hundreds of pieces of other key infrastructure are likely to be swamped by the encroaching ocean” within 15 years, thanks to climate change. And though we now have data centers that live under water, see Microsoft, submersing normal data center infrastructure is an alarming prospect.