A brand-new 4,300-mile (7,000-kilometer) undersea fiber cable television will shuttle bus information in between the U.S. and France at breakneck speeds of as much as 1 million gigabits per 2nd (Gbps)– adequate to move 125 terabytes of information every 2nd, or approximately 25,000 HD films, each 5 gigabytes big. The cable television, called Petal, will be moneyed and run by Facebook and Instagram moms and dad business Meta.

When it comes online in 2029, the ocean-spanning cable television will be the very first to provide petabit capability– double the capability of existing subsea cable televisions of this length– throughout transoceanic ranges, Meta agents stated in a declarationThat’s sufficient to enable 75% of the world’s population to stream music simultaneously.