31,068 miles: Meta plans world’s longest subsea cable to connect 5 continents
The company has been involved in developing over 20 subsea cables in the past decade.
Meta has announced its most ambitious subsea cable project – named Project Waterworth – which will reach five major continents.
The multi-billion dollar, multi-year investment project was announced through a blog post by the company.
Meta says that it will strengthen the scale and reliability of the “world’s digital highways by opening three new oceanic corridors with the abundant, high speed connectivity needed to drive AI innovation around the world.”
The company says that artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing each aspect of our lives. Therefore, Meta wants to be at the forefront of driving these new technologies. Project Waterworth, as per the blog, will help ensure that the benefits of AI and other emerging technologies are made available to more and more people across the globe.
Project Waterworth – subsea cable project
Project Waterworth is the biggest subsea cable project attempted by the company so far. According to the announcement made in the blog post by Meta’s Gaya Nagarajan, vice-president, Network Engineering, and Alex-Handrah Aimé, Global Head, Network Investments.
The blog post states that the project will span over 31,068 miles (over 50,000 kilometers) – which is even longer than the Earth’s circumference.