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

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• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  These companies are way too big and powerful

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  • SamboT@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• fubo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Was thinking how Putin will get a new target. 🧨

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    • Cyber@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• sbv@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • SamboT@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Article speculates ai data center use for meta.

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

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• njordomir@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve never had a reason to hope for a localized undersea earthquake before…

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