In a Catastrophic Internet Outage, This is How Much Money Big Tech Would Lose Every Minute

When you own a website or online business and rely on it being available to customers 24/7, even the shortest amount of downtime can be bad for business. That's extra true for Big Tech companies with huge amounts of customers. For them, just a single minute without internet service can mean millions of dollars lost. Amazon’s massive revenue would make it the biggest loser in an outage scenario no matter how long it might last. That’s the price of massive success, as the only place to go is (typically) down. Alphabet/Google and Meta/Facebook would also face losing hundreds of thousands of dollars per minute, which shoots up to multi-millions per hour. A single day of no web access would put Amazon alone back by 1.4 billion (with a B) dollars.