2024 Solar Flare Internet Outage. A widespread internet outage could, indeed, be brought on by a strong solar storm hitting earth — a rare but very real event that has not yet happened in the. A solar storm portends the remote possibility that within the next decade, the people of earth could be left without internet access for months.

Can solar activity really cause a global internet blackout? In one doomsday scenario raised in the wake of last week’s outage, a solar storm could wipe out internet access for weeks.