Amazon Looks to Grow Diamonds in Bid to Boost Computer Networks
- Company’s AWS division teams up with De Beers on project
- Diamonds may wind up in AWS networks in ‘years not decades’
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Amazon.com Inc. is teaming up with a unit of De Beers Group to grow artificial diamonds, betting that custom-made gems could could help revolutionize computer networks.
De Beers’s Element Six division will be working on the project with Amazon Web Services’ Center for Quantum Networking, a unit that’s seeking next-generation ways to transmit data securely over longer distances.