A post by @elonmusk on X.

Elon Musk said SpaceX’s satellite constellation could eventually surpass undersea cables as global data infrastructure, citing a design of roughly 100 lasers per satellite each running above 10 Tb/s across a fleet of more than 100,000 satellites. He argued that light travels about 40% faster in space than in fiber and that orbital routes are direct rather than tracing coastlines. The claim positions Starlink’s inter-satellite laser mesh as a potential long-haul backbone competitor to submarine cable operators. Watch for SpaceX launch cadence, laser-link throughput disclosures and any wholesale capacity deals that would signal a real challenge to cable economics.