When they say the world depends on Internet, this statement reached such a literal level that the failure of the network of networks would mean a gigantic economic disaster, with states that would lose millions of dollars from the first minute in the most relevant cases, and multinational companies that would see their income from an alarming way. To cover this hypothetical case, PCMag collected country-by-country figures from NetBlock, the company that provides the Cost of Shutdown Tool (COST), while for companies it took the data provided by macrotrends.net as a reference and standardized it. revenue per year for 2022.

According to data obtained from NetBlock and COST, the world would lose more than $20 million in the first minute. The United States would be the most affected at around $7,650,000, closely followed by China with losses close to $6,873,000.. The United Kingdom with $2,271,620, Japan with $1,885,054 and Germany with $1,040,932 would be the ones to lose more than a million dollars from the first minute of the internet outage, while Spain’s losses would be $394,274.

If the outage lasted a yearThe amount of money countries would lose would be a crushing blow, according to the numbers projected by PCMag. Spain, whose nominal GDP is around 1.5 trillion euros, would have losses of more than $207 billion. The United States would be the most affected with more than 4 billion in losses, while China would exceed 3.6 billionsa the whole world would lose more than 10.5 billion.

In terms of companies, it should come as no surprise that Amazon, Google, Meta (formerly the parent company of Facebook) and ByteDance (the company behind TikTok) have been severely affected since the blackout began. Amazon would lose nearly $1 million per minute in sales, while Google would lose about $538,000, a target of about $222,000. and ByteDance approximately 162,000.

If you look at the annual revenue loss, the numbers are quite high, Amazon is about 512 billion, Google is about 283 billion, Meta is 116.6 billion, and ByteDance is over 85 billion. The rest of the list compiled by PCMag shows other well-known internet giants such as Netflix, PayPal, OpenAI and Twitter/X.

As we can see, the amounts that countries and companies would lose in the event of a definitive or excessively long Internet outage would be truly dizzying, and in the case of companies, they seem to be even small considering the business model of Amazon, Google and Meta, which would basically end completely blurred because their trajectory and growth are closely linked to the Internet.