- 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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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