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Meta plans a petabit transatlantic cable

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Claim

The newsletter describes Meta's Petal cable as targeting one petabit per second across the Atlantic in 2029.

Reported metric: a petabit per second; 2029

Reporting date: 2026-09-22 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to September 22, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
Source linked by the September 22 issue (engineering.fb.com)

Indexed from the September 22 newsletter. Linked-source claims have not been independently verified.

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Petal cable

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Welcome to September 22, 2026

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Welcome to September 22, 2026

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Meta plans a petabit transatlantic cable
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-09-22
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-09-22-petal-cable
Claim: The newsletter describes Meta's Petal cable as targeting one petabit per second across the Atlantic in 2029.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to September 22, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-september-22-2026
- Source linked by the September 22 issue — https://engineering.fb.com/2026/09/21/connectivity/petal-petabit-transoceanic-subsea-cable/
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