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Jared Cohen
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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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Foreign Policy