The latest transatlantic cable, Dunant, commissioned in 2020, contains 24 fibres and uses such tricks [like dense wave-division multiplexing] to carry 300 terabits per second—more than a million times what TAT-8 could cope with. It was paid for not by a phone company, but by Google, and the tech giant plans to lay another in just two years’ time.
The Economist Technology Quarterly, Jan 9, 2021 edition: “From the universe to the dataverse“
The average annual per capita consumption of tea is 0.9kg globally
The global average per capita consumption of tea will weigh in at 0.9 kg in 2021. Also, the average price per kilogram in the tea segment is expected to amount to US$35.06 in 2021. In the United States, consumer demand for tea has grown 18.7% year over year.
Statista Consumer Market Outlook for Tea (retrieved 2021-01-30)