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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta—parent company of Facebook and Instagram—is reportedly preparing to undertake a $10 billion project to construct an extensive fiber-optic subsea cable network solely for its own use. The intended network will extend beyond 40,000 kilometers (approximately 24,850 miles), connecting various global regions while avoiding areas prone to geopolitical conflict and sabotage incidents. These sensitive zones include the Red Sea, South China Sea, Egypt, Marseilles, the Straits of Malacca, and Singapore.
While Meta currently holds partial ownership in 16 existing cable networks, this ambitious new enterprise would be entirely under Meta’s control, allowing the company to prioritize traffic for its own platforms….
