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- Meta is to invest billions in a new submarine network that will span the globe
- It has been dubbed Project Waterworth
- It will connect the Americas, Africa and Asia – but not Europe
In a bid to guarantee access to vital international data networking capacity to support its AI and cloud traffic, big tech giant Meta is to invest billions of dollars in a subsea cable network, called Project Waterworth, that will span the globe, have landing stations on five continents and be more than 50,000km long.
According to Meta, once completed, it will be “the world’s longest subsea cable project using the highest-capacity technology available”, with landing points in the US, India, Brazil, South Africa and Australia but, as the map above shows, not Europe.
