"Meta Is Reportedly Building a $10 Billion Underwater Cable That Will Circle The Globe"

" Meta Is Reportedly Building a $10 Billion Underwater Cable That Will Circle The Globe \r\n \r\n\r\nSources close to\u00a0 Meta , which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, said the company may spend over $10 billion on a nearly 25,000-mile project. Meta would reportedly own 100% of the cable's capacity, per TechCrunch. It's unclear what role, if any, AI plays in the project's motivations.\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\nTechCrunch reported the project is in its early stages, but the intended capacity and route are not public. Planning is reportedly being led by Meta's South Africa office.\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\nUnderwater fiber-optic cables are frequently used to carry telecommunication signals over large areas of water. Meta is part owner of various cables including\u00a0 2Africa , a submarine telecommunications cable extending across Africa's coastline.\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n Google \u00a0is the sole owner of 17 submarine cable holdings, while Amazon and Microsoft are part owners in a handful, telecom analyst Teleography found.\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\nEntrepreneur Sunil Tagare first reported the plan, telling TechCrunch that the cable would cost $2 billion but would jump to over $10 billion in the next five to 10 years. Tagare told TechCrunch that he speculates India's capacity to build data centers more cheaply than the US could explain why the cable may end in India.\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n\"It will start on the East Coast of the US and go straight to India with a stop in South Africa (for powering and restoration purposes),\" Tagare\u00a0 wrote on LinkedIn . \"And it will also go from India straight to the Western Coast of the US with a powering and restoration stop in Darwin, Australia \u2014 avoiding the Red Sea, the South China Sea and more importantly Egypt, Marseilles, the Straits of Malacca and Singapore \u2014 all of whom are now major single points of failure.\"\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\nThe project would take years to complete, given limited resources like cable ships, TechCrunch reported.\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\nTechCrunch reported that the\u00a0 cables \u00a0could also be strategically placed to avoid areas of\u00a0 geopolitical tension \u00a0where cables have been damaged, such as the Baltic or Red Seas.Meta did not respond to a request for comment.\r\n\r\n "

"Meta Is Reportedly Building a $10 Billion Underwater Cable That Will Circle The Globe"

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