00:00Why does India need a 50,000 km long internet cable?
00:03Meta is building the world's longest undersea internet cable
00:06connecting five continents with landing points in India, the US, Brazil and South Africa.
00:12So why should you care?
00:13Because right now, nearly 60% of India's internet runs through cables in the Strait of Hormuz
00:19and the Red Sea regions facing ongoing tensions due to the Iran war.
00:23If these cables get disrupted, the traffic gets rerouted to others,
00:26creating a digital traffic jam.
00:28That means slower payments, buffering videos, laggy apps and even outages for global companies operating in India.
00:36And in conflict zones, repairs can take much longer.
00:39So new routes sound like a good idea.
00:41But Meta is not building its cable just for the common good.
00:44It's about handling the huge data flows from its apps and powering AI data centers and cloud services,
00:50especially in growing markets like India.
00:53This gives Meta more control over the infrastructure behind its services
00:57instead of relying on telecom networks.
00:59Undersea cables carry over 95% of global internet traffic.
01:04So what happens when big tech controls more of them?
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