- Meta plans a Global Multibillion Dollar Global Project that includes 31,000 miles.
- The project will increase data transmission and connect the US with India, Brazil and South Africa.
- Meta says it aims to improve global connection and support innovation in artificial intelligence.
Meta has revealed plans to spend billions of dollars as part of its multi-year ambition to build the world’s longest subsea cable and accelerate it.
In a blog post on Friday, the company said its new Waterworth project will cover over 50,000 kilometers, or about 31,000 miles, making the project cable longer than 24,901 miles of land.
The Waterworth project aims to connect five continents, connecting the US with India, Brazil, South Africa and other major regions.
A Meta spokesman told Business Insider that the company predicts the project will take place by the end of this decade. They said they have no specifics to share costs, but posting on the blog said it would be a “multi-million-dollar, perennial investment” to improve global connection. Last November, Techcrunch reported that the company could spend over $ 10 billion on an underwater cable project nearly 25,000 miles led by Meta’s Office in South Africa the company would own 100%.
Subsea cables make up an integral part of the world’s Internet infrastructure, closing data worldwide near the speed of light thanks to their optical fiber technology. In his blog, Meta noted that cables involving the oceans of the world make up the transfer of “more than 95% of intercontinental traffic”.
Meta sees Subsea cables as vital to unlocking the next innovation of him as CEO Mark Zuckerberg increasingly shifts the focus of the company to the generation.
Last month, the company announced plans to increase its spending up to $ 65 billion this year after seeking to build large data centers capable of training and expecting increasingly powerful big language models in the heart of he’s generating boom.
Mark Zuckerberg is preparing to raise meta costs for him this year. Manuel Orbegozo/Reuters
According to the Blog’s posting, the Waterworth project aims to increase the data transmission capacity using a fiber optic cable containing 24 pairs of fiber instead of typical systems using 8 to 16 pairs of fiber.
He said the project features include a first path of its type to optimize the cable installed in deep water at depths of up to 7 kilometers, or about 4.3 miles. He also said he would use “improved burial techniques” in shallow areas, at high risk to protect against damage from ship anchors and potential risks, which would maintain cables.
“As he continues to transform industries and societies around the world, it is clear that capacity, resistance and global reach are more important than ever to support the main infrastructure,” she said.
The project announcement comes after the tankers dragged their anchors have cut off the Undersea cables in recent months in the Baltic Sea and the East China Sea.
Officials in Europe have accused Russia of underground sabotage cables while Taiwan said he doubts China It is behind the damage from its northern shores.
Cable resistance is essential for the global financial system, which depends on a wide network of underwater cables that cross the sea floor, hold transactions worth $ 10 trillion daily, and the Power Wall Street global trade and communications.
“We have run the innovation of infrastructure with different partners over the past decade, developing more than 20 subsea cables,” the post on the blog of Meta said.
“With Project Waterworth, we can help that the benefits of him and other developing technologies are available to everyone, no matter where they live or work.”