Google says project on famous crab-covered island is about cables, not combat

That’s great, but what about the crabs?

AI is undeniably on the move right now, but so are crustaceans. Christmas Island’s annual crab migration is a natural phenomenon so apparently wondrous that Sir David Attenborough reportedly once described as one of his greatest TV moments when he visited the site in 1990.

Every year, millions of crabs emerge from the forest and swarm across roads, streams, rocks, and beaches to reach the ocean, where each female can produce up to…