Meta Building Big-Ass underwater Internet cable

Meta says I will invest Multiple billions of dollars Over the next few years, to build a new underwater internet cable, which will last 50,000 kilometers longer than the earth’s tour and reach five main continents.

Project Waterworth, as it is called, is the first underwater cable project of Meta to develop alone without partners. The company says it will use “first of its kind” technique and improved funeral techniques to maximize the amount of cable that can be laid in deep water where it is less at risk of damaging ships or other dangers.

Although the Internet is something like air these days, the penetration of the world around us through a range of radio, the way it encounters the continents is quite analog. The bigger part of the Internet traffic traveling between the continents passes through underwater internet cables – mainly as a really long Ethernet cables. The essential nature of underwater cables for communication and electricity has made them the main goals of attack in recent years, as countries like Russia have been linked to cable sabotage, such as A recent cutting of a Baltic cableUsing a Navy of Ghost vessels. The attacks violate opponents and sow chaos, as the countries see what they can get out of (Russia denied participation in the recent incident).

The Meta and Instagram application package is a large amount of daily internet activity, and the company invests a lot in infrastructure to ensure that its services are fast and reliable. In this sense, it is not surprising that the company would like to build a cable that can maintain its services and let it control the data transmission.

Netflix has spent years building its own content supply network, including data centers and appliances it provides to Internet service providers around the world where broadcasts and movies can be cached so that the content can reach users as quickly as possible , without network voltage, after years of ISPS complaints about the use of a bandwidth. Therefore, Netflix declined to support the rules of network neutrality years ago; He no longer needed protection. He was tried by South Korean ISP in 2021 who complained Popularity of Squid caused network problemsS Netflix and other strime must pay special network fees there to help internet providers.

Meta spent a lot of time announcing Project Waterworth to talk about the future of AI. The company, like the rest of Big Tech, believes that soon everyone will use new AI tools, which will lead to a flood of a new search for data centers. Cables are the spinal infrastructure that will ensure that it has the frequency bar it needs to convey all these new data.