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by r9 1551 days ago
The infrastructure scale is not even in the same ballpark, or even neighbourhood.

Besides the fact that you can't just "make" internet from a coal/petrol/etc generator somewhere nearby.

Imagine a ship's anchor damaging a cable carrying a couple megawatts of power (this happens frequently to the undersea fibre optic cables, and even those are a nightmare to repair).