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Antarctica’s data bottleneck: $620m cable to end ‘suitcases of hard drives’

CLAVE 1 / 44,100 km subsea fibre cable proposed to connect Antarctica to global internet via southern Chile.

CLAVE 2 / 4$620 million estimated cost for the larger cable option serving nine Antarctic landing points.

CLAVE 3 / 4Research stations currently ship data on hard drives—a method dubbed 'suitcases full of hard drives' by study lead Juan Pablo.

CLAVE 4 / 4SMART sensors on the cable could monitor ocean temperature, pressure and seismic activity for climate research.

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