# The Secret Life of the 500+ Cables That Run the Internet
"... subsea cables are the workhorses of global commerce and communications, carrying more than 99% of traffic between continents."
"You probably know that tech giants like Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and Google run the brains of the internet. They're called "hyperscalers" for operating hundreds of data centers packed with millions of servers. You might not know that they also increasingly run the internet's nervous system, too."
"Cable vulnerabilities are real."