Norwegian firm pitches new undersea cable which will bypass the US entirely - 2,800-mile link aims to connect Europe and Canada
https://www.techradar.com/pro/norwegian-firm-pitches-new-undersea-cable-which-will-bypass-the-us-entirely-2-800-mile-link-will-connect-europe-and-canadaOpen linkView original on piefed.ca
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As an american, I approve this message!
So long as we prohibit American firms from accessing it this is great.
Hell ya. We need to start taking our digital sovereignty more seriously.
Iceland has a lot of energy, and is cold. Seems an ideal place for data centers (I have no idea if they already do this, I'm too lazy to look). Also Iceland is on a straight line between Norway and Canada, so it wouldn't even be out of the way.
We don’t need more disinformation centres in the west.
Yeah, I wasn't thinking of LLMs or anything like that. More of the old data warehouses that I used to work in 25 years ago. Or not, either way, seems like a good way to break up the cable for easier fixes if needed.
The servers in Iceland are slow at the moment due to fibre optic issues.
Hence the new cables.
2800 miles is crazy...
4506km in metric.