<ul><li>Facebook's parent company, Meta, is planning to lay over 40,000km of fiber optic cables under the sea to handle its social media platforms and AI investments.</li><li>The estimated budget for the project is starting at $2 billion but could potentially reach over $10 billion.</li><li>The cable is expected to serve India and will have a circuitous route from the US East Coast to South Africa to India before returning to the US West Coast via Australia.</li><li>The cable will avoid potential geopolitical risk areas such as the Red Sea, the South China Sea, and Egypt.</li></ul>

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

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