Why America Should Suddenly Prepare For A Billion-Dollar ‘Internet Apocalypse’ Caused By The Sun
However, power grids are designed to mitigate the effect of CMEs. The Internet is not. “The networking community has largely overlooked this risk during the design of the network topology and geo-distributed systems such as DNS and data centers,” reads the paper, which predicts large-scale Internet outages covering the entire globe and lasting several months.
