The Subsea Cable That Controls Half the Internet

Episode 4 of The Hardware Podcast digs into the hidden hardware that keeps the global internet running: subsea fiber-optic cables. Lucas and Luna examine the recent damage to a critical cable in the Red Sea, the economics of cable repair, and why a single ship—the Dependable—handles most Atlantic repairs. They explore how hyperscalers like Google are now building their own private cables and what that means for the rest of us. Along the way, they reveal why you can't just patch a broken cable with duct tape and why the repair process is more like spacewalk surgery than undersea plumbing. A concrete look at the fragile physical layer of the internet. #SubseaCables #FiberOptics #InternetInfrastructure #Hardware #Technology #Business #Telecom #Google #RedSea #CableRepair #TheDependable #Hyperscalers #Latency #Bandwidth #DigitalEconomy #Engineering #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo