Reading time 1 minNearly 1.5 million kilometres of submarine cables criss-cross the globe. Raoul Jacquand, Vice President for Strategic Alliances and External Affairs at Alcatel Submarine Networks, says that undersea telecoms infrastructure is a new geopolitical and economic battleground. So it is of strategic importance – it can damage societies, companies at large, if indeed this infrastructure is in danger on a large scale." "AI will bring more traffic to transit between data centres. And data centres today need to be located where energy is cheap and abundant."