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Melting Arctic ice could open up new routes for international data traffic.
A new subsea cable called Far North Fiber would link Europe and Japan, cutting a path through the Arctic that would have been unreachable until recently. The Arctic is warming nearly 4x faster than the rest of the world, and vanishing sea ice could turn the Arctic into the new Wild West for companies looking to take advantage of newly navigable waters.
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