Meta announced through a corporate statement that its American entity has created a submarine communications system spanning 50,000 kilometers between 5 continents to boost digital data movement reliability and capacity.
Meta has named its “most ambitious” submarine cable project Project Waterworth which will deliver “advanced communications capacity to the United States, India, Brazil, South Africa and other regions.”
This project shields its investors with a multi-year business expenditure surpassing multiple billion dollars.
Submarine cables facilitate all worldwide digital communication transactions between users. Submarine cables act as critical strategic elements because they include intricate infrastructure systems that demand exact precision.
The rapid growth of data-based economics creates ongoing difficulties for nations to control their privacy protection as well as national-level data exchanges.
Research conducted by the US Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in August 2024 reveals the world contains 450 submarine pipelines which extend for 1.2 million kilometers.
Four businesses control the entire underwater cable market sharing as per data from 2021 and Meta and other digital tech giants began submarine infrastructure development due to cable-related economic difficulties.
Existence of submarine cables continues to face damage from natural phenomena such as underwater landslides and tsunamis and boat anchors as well as threats of sabotage and espionage.
Every advancing year of AI technology along with the escalating use of resource-heavy generative AI models fuels accelerating global digital movement that leads to increased digital infrastructure spending.
