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After being rumored that are in the early stages of the project last year, <a target="_blank" href="https://engineering.fb.com/2025/02/14/connectivity/project-waterworth-ai-subsea-infrastructure/”>Goal confirmed today Which is building “Waterworth Project”, an underwater cable of more than 50,000 km that will connect five continents. The company has been associated in other cable projects previously, but this would be the first underwater infrastructure piece that it has directly.
The project touches land in the United States, Brazil, India and South Africa, and apparently is also opening a new technical land. Meta states that Waterworth is the longest fiber 24 pairs cable project, and the company is using the “first routing of its kind” to place the deepest cables as possible, “at depths of up to 7,000 meters.” If the cables are not deep enough, underwater dangers, such as ships that fall and drag their anchors, can cause permanent damage, alter the service.
The finish line does not go into details about how the cable will be used, beyond pointing The “innovation of ai“. On their own, the target services and platforms are Said account For approximately 10 percent of the global use of fixed Internet and 22 percent of mobile traffic, so at least the existing companies will benefit from a stable connection.
TO Joint Declaration of the United States-India Launched after Prime Minister Modi visited the United States “welcomed” the announcement. He also points out that India is to help finance, maintain and repair submarine cables in the Indian Ocean. A Meta spokesman clarified that India does not participate in the financing of the Waterworth project.
Update, February 14, 5:30 pm et: This article was modified after publishing to clarify that India is not financially involved with Project Waterworth. We regret the error.
This article originally appeared in Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/meta-confirms-its-building-its-swe-subsea-cable-190153227.html?src=rsss
