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Gulf datacenter traffic runs on fiber strung beside oil pipelines
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US hyperscalers are piping Gulf data center traffic out through fibre-optic cables an Iraqi telecom has strung alongside crude-oil pipelines, while fusion's supply chain has driven high-temperature superconducting wire from 5,000 km to 1.5 million km over fifteen years.
Reported metric: 5,000 → 1,500,000 km
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