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

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨SamboT@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/14/meta-confirms-project-waterworth-a-global-subsea-cable-project-spanning-50000km/

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  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    These companies are way too big and powerful

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    • SamboT@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Was thinking how Putin will get a new target. 🧨

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      • Cyber@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • sbv@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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