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Norwegian firm pitches new undersea cable which will bypass the US entirely - 2,800-mile link aims to connect Europe and Canada
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Sunshine piefed.ca Sunshine@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-06-07
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Link: 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-canada
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DeadEndLink lemmy.ca DeadEndLink@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2026-09-04
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2800 miles is crazy...
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Maiq piefed.zip Maiq@piefed.zip
Joined: 2026-07-12
#3 · Quote Reply

As an american, I approve this message!
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Sunshine Moderator Sunshine@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-06-07
#4 · Quote Reply
DeadEndLink wrote:
2800 miles is crazy...

4506km in metric.
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sin_free_for_00_days sopuli.xyz sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-07-28
#5 · Quote Reply

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.
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Sunshine Moderator Sunshine@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-06-07
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sin_free_for_00_days wrote:
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.
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sin_free_for_00_days sopuli.xyz sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-07-28
#7 · Quote Reply
Sunshine wrote:
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.
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Sunshine Moderator Sunshine@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-06-07
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sin_free_for_00_days wrote:
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.
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scrodumb lemmy.ca scrodumb@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2026-08-23
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Sunshine wrote:
The servers in Iceland are slow at the moment due to fibre optic issues.

Hence the new cables.
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scrodumb lemmy.ca scrodumb@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2026-08-23
#10 · Quote Reply

So long as we prohibit American firms from accessing it this is great.
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TheSecondVariety lemmy.ca TheSecondVariety@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2026-10-11
#11 · Quote Reply

Hell ya. We need to start taking our digital sovereignty more seriously.
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