Good news! This is huge! Amazing! Bravo!
When tech giants like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg compete!
Dictators like Putin the Terrible and Xi Jinping may not like this subsea cable. Will they sabotage it like other subsea cables before? Will China and Russia even be connected by it?
"Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is the second-biggest driver of internet usage globally. Its properties — and their billions of users — account for 10% of all fixed and 22% of all mobile traffic. Meta’s investments into artificial intelligence stand to boost that usage even further. ...
TechCrunch has confirmed with sources close to the company that Meta plans to build a new, major, fibre-optic subsea cable extending around the world — a 40,000+ kilometer project that could total more than $10 billion of investment. Critically, Meta will be the sole owner and user of this subsea cable — a first for the company and thus representing a milestone for its infrastructure efforts. ..."
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