The Carrington Event's effects were mostly seen on very long telegraph wires, which are rather different from today's power distribution wires. Mitigations against EMP have been put in place at many US substations which will reduce the effect. Communications lines are mostly fiber now, and they shouldn't be affected due to the way the power is injected. We're seeing disruptions in some radio communications, and while some physical issues may pop up I don't think they'll be many. Think of it like a Y2K event.
Fiber optics are very much at risk, along with power infrastructure.
I disagree. Care to provide more info?
Here you go retard. Learn to do an internet search.
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/are-fiber-optics-YCOP9sBHRQuOqczUP20Y3g
At this point some people may be scratching their heads and wondering how this could possibly impact optical fibre cables, which don’t use electrical signals or wires to transmit data and instead work by sending laser light over glass (silica) or plastic fibres. According to the ‘Solar Superstorms: Planning for an Internet Apocalypse‘ study, the issue isn’t the fibre, but rather the repeaters that are needed to boost such signals (these are often spaced at intervals of 50 – 150km and are powered using a conductor, which were found to be vulnerable to GIC-induced failures).
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