Meta baut globales Unterseekabel im Wert von 10 Milliarden US-Dollar zur exklusiven Nutzung
Meta baut globales Unterseekabel im Wert von 10 Milliarden US-Dollar zur exklusiven Nutzung
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Meta is planning to build a huge subsea cable that will span over 40,000 km across the globe, costing around $10 billion. Unlike its current setup, where it shares cables with other companies, Meta will own and control this entire cable. The goal is to have a secure, reliable internet connection for its services without depending on others’ infrastructure.
The cable will avoid risky areas like the South China Sea and the Straits of Malacca, which have seen cable damage in the past. It will connect the US, India, South Africa, and Australia. Known as the “W” cable (image in the article), this project is still in early stages and could take 5-10 years to finish.
Not until their competitors pay some „environmental activist“ organization a few million dollars to tie this up in litigation over some obscure T&E species for the next 5 years.
Yeah why not, many other big tech companies own their cables, so should meta.
I’m waiting to hear stories about one company dragging their anchor deliberately to cut other’s cables.
As an Aussie the fact that this is going to Darwin is hilarious. Of course it would go there based on the location but I’m dying at the thought that Zuck’s big shiny new cable is gunna go into one of Australia’s absolute shithole cities.
How do we not have laser satellite combos capable of this bandwidth yet? It just seems so easy to sabotage these lines.