<ul><li>Facebook's parent company, Meta, is planning to lay over 40,000km of fiber optic cables under the sea to handle data for its social media platforms and AI investments.</li><li>The project, which may cost over $10 billion, will make Meta the sole owner and user of the underwater cable.</li><li>Meta already has the 2Africa cable project, aiming to connect Africa and Europe, but the new cable would be its own project.</li><li>The cable's route is expected to serve India and will avoid potential geopolitical risk areas in the Red Sea, South China Sea, and Egypt.</li></ul>

Meta ‘planning $10,000,000 cable which will stretch round entire world’

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