Meta spending billions on world's longest subsea internet cable

Over the weekend, Facebook owner Meta announced "Project Waterworth," an ambitious plan to build out a globe-spanning, 31,000-mile subsea internet cable. That's longer from end to end than the circumference of the Earth. When completed, the massive cable is expected to connect the US, Brazil, South Africa, India, and other regions along the route. The project represents the latest push by Big Tech companies to control a greater share of subsea cable infrastructure. That general shift in who maintains the internet's "pipes" could shift even further with the heightened data demands introduced by competition over advanced AI.