Meta unfurls Petal, a 1,000,000 Gbps internet cable 4,300 miles long — that's 3.3 million times quicker than the average US connection, and probably fast enough to transfer all original songs ever produced in less than a second
THE SO WHAT
A 1,000,000 Gbps US–France cable by 2029 is hyperscaler AI demand turning into sovereign-scale bandwidth infrastructure. If your product depends on low-latency transatlantic data or training replication, start planning for a world where Meta’s private backbone quietly becomes the de facto fast lane.
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