Global warming poses "devastating" threat to the internet, study says.

A flooded street after a coastal storm at Turner Road in Scituate, Mass. Credit: David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Parts of the infrastructure that forms the backbone of the Internet — from fiber optic cables to colocation facilities — is at risk of being flooded and knocked offline during the next few decades as a result of climate change-related sea level rise, according to a new study.

Full story at Axios.

By Andrew Freedman.