It’s just a bunch of wire and fiber optics and microwaves connecting everybody and everything. Most of it is laying on the bottom of the ocean.
“Washington’s decision to nix any Hong Kong terminus for the four planned subsea cable deals upended the plans of Google, Meta and Amazon. These tech titans have been among the biggest investors in new cables over the last decade as they seek to link up a network of data centers in the United States and Asia that underpin their fast-growing Cloud computing businesses, according to TeleGeography.”
