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DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show

Episode 40 - Plenty of submarine cables in the sea with Elena Badiola, Exa Infrastructure

Sep 14, 2023
37:27

Ever wondered about the practical challenges of connecting our continents?

In this podcast episode, we talk with Exa Infrastructure's Elena Badiola about the process of getting subsea cables underwater: from environmental surveys to climate change, to funding challenges.

Elena also shares her experience of living on a cable ship for five weeks after an earthquake caused an outage - and how a military coup almost stopped her from getting back home.

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