Inside America's only internet sea cable maker, supplying Google and Microsoft

Ninety-nine percent of international internet traffic flows through cables stretched across the ocean floor.

Demand is at an all-time high as the world becomes more dependent on cloud computing and AI.

But only one US company can both make and lay them.

We visited its 73-year-old factory and went aboard a multimillion-dollar cable-laying ship to see how it is keeping up — and why our data still needs to travel thousands of feet beneath the sea.

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