Mastodawn

🛰️ "#Starlink’s ability to provide connectivity in conflict zones has turned Elon Musk into a geopolitical force."

After its introduction in #Ukraine🇺🇦 in 2022, backed up by the US government, the satellite network recently came into the spotlight in #Iran🇮🇷 and #Venezuela🇻🇪.

"There's certainly a business case for SpaceX and Starlink here," according to Lauryn Williams, deputy director of the CSIS Strategic Technologies Program.
https://time.com/7345047/starlink-venezuela-elon-musk/

GeoNum Dec 4

The #semiconductor industry's lead by fabless companies (e.NVIDIA) who design chips but leave their manufacturing to foundries (e.TSMC).

Though it failed to attract such actors, Europe still counts the Dutch ASML, provider of lithographic printers used in chip making.

See Marcus Lu's article:
https://urlr.me/brBkyS

GeoNum Dec 2

In 2022 alone, Pakistan🇵🇰 suffered from six massive internet blackout due to #SubmarineCables cuts.
This lack of #resilience echoes that of other countries in West Africa, for example in march 2024.

This study underlines "the power asymmetry between content platforms, operators, and regulators" regarding infrastructure planning and its consequences on Internet connectivity.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3674213.3674220

GeoNum Nov 18

#ShowDontTell 👀 Here's some interactive maps of the major internet infrastructures around the globe🗺️⤵️
If you're often at a loss as to the details of the internet, worry no more, you can visualize it !
First here's a quick run through of Internet's working and history :
https://urlr.me/JW9eYC 1/4

GeoNum Nov 13

Zoom : 🇺🇸 data-centers and who pays for them ? Aside the environmental cost, data-centers have a financial cost too. In the USA questions arise about those informational hubs and their local effects, through their actual tax incomes or their energy demands. ⤵️
First where are those data-centers ?
See Nick Routley's article mapping their energy demands :
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/map-network-powering-us-data-centers/ 1/3