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title: "The Internet's New Builders"
description: "Content and cloud platforms are no longer just the largest customers of global connectivity. They are increasingly financing and building the infrastructure itself, from submarine systems to edge and data center footprints."
seo_title: "The Internet's New Builders"
seo_description: "Content and cloud platforms now finance submarine cables and data-center footprints, not only buy capacity from carriers. Full article on RIPE Labs."
slug: the-internets-new-builders
status: published
published_at: 2026-04-28
author: Arman Obosyan
author_url: https://sugra.systems/about
section: general
primary_keyword: hyperscalers submarine cables internet infrastructure
hero_image: /blog/images/posts/the-internets-new-builders-hero.jpg
hero_alt: "World map of submarine cables as coloured routes on a dark ocean."
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tags:
  - netatlas
  - network
  - infrastructure
---

Content and cloud platforms are no longer just the largest customers of global connectivity. They are increasingly financing and building the infrastructure itself, from submarine systems to edge and data center footprints.

Internet core increasingly built by hyperscalers, not traditional carriers.

Continue at source: [The Internet's New Builders](https://labs.ripe.net/author/armanobosyan/the-internets-new-builders/) on RIPE Labs.

*Originally published on [RIPE Labs](https://labs.ripe.net/author/armanobosyan/the-internets-new-builders/), 28 April 2026.*