- 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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cool but canada is part of the five eyes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
so this would literally accomplish nothing except making a norwegian company rich
(Un)Fun fact, a major function of the 5 eyes is to do end runs around our prohibitions on our intelligence agencies spying on our own citizens. We say our partners found the information and they shared it back with us.
“nothing” is an overstatement. It’s less US things to be compliant to. ICANN and IANA are still bitches here, though.
Changes are never made overnight for something like this
idk which change you’d think they make for something like this? exit five eyes or making europe part of “six-eyes”? would you trust them with an exemption for european data?
Shifting from a domain of influence to another domain of influence
so you’d be ok if they do the whole data-sharing-circle-jerk if they did it with the EU?
When did I say that?
you were talking about “shifting domains of influence” i asked if that’s what you meant