Meta confirms ‘Project Waterworth,’ a global subsea cable project spanning 50,000 kilometers

[sambot@lemmy.world]

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[hootinnhollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

These companies are way too big and powerful

[fubo@lemmy.world]

First step: Find a country with a navy competent to defend your undersea cables.

[sambot@lemmy.world]

Our government should be doing stuff like this for everybody. These are the taxes i want to pay

[lemmebe@sh.itjust.works]

Was thinking how Putin will get a new target. 🧨

[sbv@sh.itjust.works]

Are these cables just for use by Meta properties, or will they sell access to other orgs?

Apparently Google (or maybe Alphabet?) also has a bunch of undersea cables. It looks like those are for just by Google Cloud customers (and presumably) Google itself.

[cyber@feddit.uk]

There are already multiple cases of Russian trawlers breaking cables¸ gas pipelines, etc.

[sambot@lemmy.world]

Article speculates ai data center use for meta.

Maybe also helps their vr too for better connection in the metaverse

[njordomir@lemmy.world]

I've never had a reason to hope for a localized undersea earthquake before...