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Meta confirms ‘Project Waterworth,’ a global subsea cable project spanning 50,000 kilometers (techcrunch.com)
submitted 5 days ago by SamboT to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SamboT 1 points 5 days ago

Article speculates ai data center use for meta.

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