The American company “MITA”, owner of the Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp platforms, announced that it would publish an underwater cable connecting 5 continents in an area of 50,000 kilometers, to “improve the possibility of transferring digital data And its reliability functions “, according to what has been indicated in a press release.
“Meta” spoke of this stage, called “waterworth”, as the most ambitious “marine cable project, declaring that this project is supposed to provide” advanced communication capacity for the United States, India, the Brazil, South Africa and other regions.
Meta stressed that this project represents an “investment of several years of billions of dollars”.
Marine cables make it possible to make various communications and digital transactions in the world, which are of great strategic importance, and are characterized by a complex and precise infrastructure.
In a world where data has become the engine of the digital economy, privacy and data management is a growing challenge.
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According to a report by the American Research Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), published in August 2024, there are approximately 450 tubes installed under the seas in the world, more than 1.2 million kilometers.
According to figures from 2021, 4 companies are entirely shared by the marine cable market, but giant digital technology companies such as “MITA” began in their own infrastructure of efforts in light of the economic challenges linked to these cables.
These cables are continuously damaged by natural factors (underwater landslides, tsunami and boats), and they are vulnerable to sabotage and espionage.
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and obstetric artificial intelligence models that require dense resources, the global digital movement should increase in addition to investing in digital infrastructure.