Searching Continental Internet Exchange only brings up AI generated articles for me. Worse, some articles may be confusing DE-CIX projects with an African Union led effort to keep internet traffic local, as shown in this article from eurweb.

Edit: on second thought it seems the “Continental Internet Exchanges” they’re talking about are the centers established by DE-CIX which stands for “Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange”

Anecdotally people prefer riding trains over planes (I do too). I know a pilot who said that he doesn’t recommend his son become a pilot like him because his earnings have actually fallen due to the increased preference for high speed rail. According to him the trend has already started before COVID but the effects became more apparent after.