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I wondered if traffic between the UK and Europe ran through the Channel Tunnel - which would be much harder to surreptitiously cut without being noticed and yes
by helsinkiandrew 3y ago
I wondered if traffic between the UK and Europe ran through the Channel Tunnel - which would be much harder to surreptitiously cut without being noticed and yes 80% of traffic does:
> Approximately 80 percent of the Internet traffic which runs between the UK and mainland Europe today travels through the Channel Tunnel
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/colt-completes-the-deployment-of-fiber-network-infrastructure-along-the-channel-tunnel/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/colt-completes-th...
- sph 3y agoProps to that article for finding the gloomiest picture of the English station of the Eurotunnel. Brexit has been hard but it's not a nuclear winter just yet.
- danielbln 3y agoThat looks like it's straight out of Children Of Men. I guess a picture from St. Pancras wouldn't quite have the same punch.
- cjrp 3y agoTo be fair, the Folkestone terminal is quite... functional.
- odiroot 3y agoEngland is very into that retro-Soviet palette.
- Joker_vD 3y agoMany people for some reason believe that Brutalism was a Soviet invention but no, it originated in the post-WW2 Britain and spread from there.
- desas 3y agoIt was heavily influenced from outside Britain though, particularly Le Corbusier
- Aromasin 3y agoBrutalist architecture; quite possibly the worst thing come out of post-WW2 Britain, just behind Piers Morgan.
- jacobp100 3y agoYeah there’s a 1GW cable that runs through it for power transmission too
- moffkalast 3y agoDarn it, it's just short by 0.21GW.
- spacemanspiff01 3y ago[dead]