Europe wants to dodge troublesome regions by building undersea cables beneath the Arctic
- The EU is considering routing subsea cables through the Artic
- It aims to avoid regions of conflict and instability such as Russia and Iran
- The routes are projected to cost €2 billion and be operational by 2030
If you currently access or communicate with the internet in Asia as a European, around 90% of your traffic travels via subsea internet cables in the Middle East.
Given the recent conflict between the US and Iran, expanding capacity and building new projects has been a bit of a non-starter, as Meta well knows.
To combat this bottleneck, and to avoid the obvious troubles of navigating the internet via Russia, the European Union wants to take the Northwest Passage, or transit the North Pole.
Putting the internet on ice
The two proposed solutions, under the name Polar Connect, come with their own challenges, but apparently the EU is willing to take...
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