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Re:Facebook left 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid off the coa... by m1gu3l on Monday August 17, 2020 @05:56PM (#24192672)
...and exactly how many facebook scale projects do you run?

probably cheaper for them to use the cable company they bought likely to support crazy projects like this.

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Re:Facebook left 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid off the coa... by duxup on Monday August 17, 2020 @08:54PM (#24194143)
Is Facebook running cables at unusually large scale?
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Re:Facebook left 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid off the coa... by GauntletWizard on Monday August 17, 2020 @10:18PM (#24194617)
If by "unusually large scale" you mean for FAANG-scale companies, no. It's probably pretty much in line with other global-scale companies. Which is to say: At one point, Google owned 30% of all long-haul fiber runs in the world. I doubt they're at that number anymore, but it's not because they've sold them off. I would not be surprised if Facebook owned only a tiny fraction of that, but even if they own 1% of the world's fiber runs, it's worth them having their own specialized subsidiary.
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