Pipelines Host Emergency Internet Routes

Cloud providers are beginning to route live traffic over terrestrial fiber laid along oil and gas pipeline corridors (IQ Networks' 'Silk Route Transit'). The corridor reduces latency (reported ~150ms → ~70ms), provides physical security advantages (existing access roads/security), and is being extended into Turkey to create a continuous land path from the Gulf to Europe. — This rewires how global data resilience, sovereignty, and wartime routing are governed — pipeline rights and energy security now intersect directly with internet infrastructure and foreign policy.