Back in November, we broke the news that Meta — owner of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, with billions of users accounting for 10% of all fixed and 22% of all mobile traffic — was close to announcing work on a major new, $10 billion+ subsea cable project to connect up the globe. The aim was to give Meta more control over how it runs its own services.

  • @Arbiter
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    77 days ago

    Oh boy, centralization. What could go wrong?

  • slazer2au
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    16 days ago

    Makes sense, if I had the choice of dark or lit fibre I always take the dark.

    This is just a global upscaling of that thinking.