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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] 87 points 5 days ago (1 children)

These companies are way too big and powerful

[–] SamboT 50 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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.

[–] fubo 28 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Was thinking how Putin will get a new target. 🧨

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

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

[–] njordomir 1 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

don't face imperialism from blue lizard aliens. get rid of cable and upgrade to di-