Can you really rent out the sea bed? Oregon set to start charging service providers for undersea cables within three…
- Plans to triple application fees and apply a price-per-foot on coastal cable installations have been announced by Oregon
- Oregon state planners believe the new structure could raise $1 million per new cable laid
- Protecting the coastline has become a political priority in recent years
Oregon has announced plans to introduce a payment structure for service providers laying undersea cables off the coast of the Pacific state.
Currently, the low-tax and zoning incentives on offer make Oregon a particularly attractive location for tech companies including Microsoft and Amazon, and with major data centers (such as Google’s Dalles installation) demanding increasing data infrastructure, state officials believe a new pricing arrangement is overdue.
Oregon Department of State Lands is making the proposal, which seeks to completely restructure the pricing around undersea cables, which has been fixed at $5,000 since 2001.
Price per foot levy
Even by tripling application fees, Oregon will...
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