Not the point of the article, but I bet the offshore latency issues are primarily because of lack of regional data centers. This is something we dealt with when designing global trading apps. You have to have federated DBs in APAC.

Interestingly, Mastodon's architecture seems well suited to solving this problem.

Amazing - NYC will be a backwater.

"In just over a decade from now, its major cities will contain 40 million people. Abidjan, with 8.3 million people, will be almost as large as New York City is today."

"the projected population for this coastal zone will reach 51 million people by 2035"

"By 2100, the Lagos-Abidjan stretch is projected to be the largest zone of continuous, dense habitation on earth, with something in the order of half a billion people."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/27/megalopolis-how-coastal-west-africa-will-shape-the-coming-century