The Piece: https://www.theverge.com/c/24070570/internet-cables-undersea...
The Podcast episode: https://www.theverge.com/24131941/undersea-cables-pc-chips-q...
I'm skeptical of this claim. It seems way too high to me, and the reference is a paper about "Fast and destructive density currents created by ocean-entering volcanic eruptions" which I'm unable to view but seems unrelated.
> Such an incident has wider implications because subsea cables carry >99% of all international data traffic, including the internet and trillions of dollars per day in financial transactions
and in turn cites "L. Carter, R. Gavey, P. J. Talling, J. T. Liu, Oceanography 27, 58–67 (2014)", which I can't find a working link for.
So it's actually talking about international traffic. Although even then, that's a little hard to believe.
Very cool stuff.