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The future of undersea Internet cables: Are big tech companies forming a cartel? | APNIC Blog
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    In 2018 we created around 2.5 million terabytes of data every day. This roughly equals 425 million HD movies a day. Any comparison is in itself massive, so it is understandable if these numbers are difficult to grasp. What’s more, data creation is growing at an exponential rate every year.

    All this data exists in different storage centres across the world. But I am able to access the statistics shown here, probably stored in servers in the US, while sitting in India, because of the Internet — the greatest invention of the 20th and 21st centuries. But when we think of the Internet, many wrongly assume that satellites in space keep us connected with different parts of the world. In reality, 99% of the data travels between economies and continents through undersea cables.