Meta confirms ‘Project Waterworth,’ a global subsea cable project spanning 50,000 kilometers
Meta confirms ‘Project Waterworth,’ a global subsea cable project spanning 50,000 kilometers
Back in November, we broke the news that Meta — owner of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, with billions of users accounting for 10% of all fixed and 22%
These companies are way too big and powerful
Our government should be doing stuff like this for everybody. These are the taxes i want to pay
Maybe it will end up under different ownership through time. Meta has a lot of cash though... probably not going anywhere.
First step: Find a country with a navy competent to defend your undersea cables.
Was thinking how Putin will get a new target. 🧨
There are already multiple cases of Russian trawlers breaking cables¸ gas pipelines, etc.
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.
Article speculates ai data center use for meta.
Maybe also helps their vr too for better connection in the metaverse
don't face imperialism from blue lizard aliens. get rid of cable and upgrade to di-
I've never had a reason to hope for a localized undersea earthquake before...