Summary

The undersea Estlink-2 power cable linking Finland and Estonia experienced an outage on Wednesday, prompting an investigation, Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo announced.

Authorities stated the disruption will not affect electricity supplies in Finland or Estonia.

Concerns are heightened due to recent incidents involving undersea infrastructure in the Baltic, including severed data cables in November and the 2022 sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines.

The cause of the Estlink-2 outage remains unclear.

  • ms.lane
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    2419 hours ago

    Assassination.

    • @[email protected]
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      -414 hours ago

      That’d create a power vacuum, and we sure as hell don’t want to risk someone worse taking his place.

      • @ManixT
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        514 hours ago

        Would be pretty damn hard to do that

        • @[email protected]
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          17 minutes ago

          The first rule of history is that it can always get worse.

          Maybe it doesn’t. Or maybe somebody starts a nuclear war to avenge Putin.