Bulk Infrastructure's proposed Leif Erikson cable would link Norway to Montreal via Canada, bypassing U.S. territory, but financing and customers remain unconfirmed.

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  • Bulk Infrastructure proposes a 6,500-kilometer Norway-to-Montreal cable bypassing U.S. territory entirely.
  • Costs exceed $620 million, with financing, customers, and route surveys still unresolved.
  • Routing around U.S. territory does not guarantee independence from American networks downstream.

Norwegian infrastructure company Bulk Infrastructure is proposing a direct fiber cable from Norway to Canada, routed around the United States entirely. The project, named Leif Erikson, remains a proposal, not a construction announcement.

Canada currently has relatively few direct international cable options that avoid U.S. routing, a structural gap the project is designed to address. That context, combined with growing government interest in infrastructure resilience, gives the proposal its strategic weight.

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  • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
    11·
    12 hours ago

    since the Brits do digital surveillance on everything that goes through cables that land in Britain and give that data to the Americans

    Sorry to break it to you… but ECHELON is a surveillance program operated by the signatories of the UKUSA Security Agreement… aka the Five Eyes… Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the United States. Canada is in that list spying for the group right alongside everyone else. Two of the intercept stations are located in Canada… CFS Leitrim (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) and CFB Gander (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada).

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      12 hours ago

      True.

      It’s just that if that data doesn’t go via a different 5-eyes member nation then Canada can actually chose whether they want data going between Canada and Europe to be under surveillance and a copy getting sent to the US or not, whilst if it does they have no such choice.