99%的国际互联网流量通过铺设在海底的电缆传输。随着世界对云计算和人工智能的依赖日益增加，需求达到历史最高水平。但只有这一家美国公司既能制造又能铺设这些电缆。
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.
我们参观了其73年历史的工厂，并登上了一艘价值数百万美元的铺缆船，亲眼目睹它如何应对挑战 — — 以及为什么我们的数据仍需要穿越数千英尺深的海底才能传输。
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.