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After a year peppered with news about subsea cable cuts, Amazon, Meta and Google are planning new cabling systems for 2025, spending big to boost critical infrastructure for enterprises.<\/span><\/p>\n Amazon Ireland filed for a license to land a cable connecting Ireland to the U.S. Meanwhile, Meta is planning an international subsea cable network, and Google expects to expand its already extensive undersea infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n In January 2025, Roderick Beck broke the news of the Amazon-Ireland cable filing on <\/span>LinkedIn<\/a><\/span> and his <\/span>blog<\/a><\/span>. Beck’s Luminous Real Estate and Telecom OU is a brokerage that handles subsea and terrestrial networks. Amazon has not yet confirmed the venture.<\/span><\/p>\n According to Beck, Amazon is considering landing the subsea cable near Castlefreke on Ireland’s South Coast in county Cork along a stretch of beach called the Strand.<\/span><\/p>\n In addition to connecting two longtime trading partners and allies, Beck said the planned Amazon cable could provide sorely needed physical diversity — at least on the terrestrial side to the Irish Sea and older Atlantic cables, such as Hibernia North and South and AC1.<\/span><\/p>\n “I can never emphasize enough how much money Amazon loses if it cannot serve its customers for even just a few seconds,” Beck said in his blog.<\/span><\/p>\n Ireland is a critical hub for Amazon. The company’s data centers serve not only Ireland but also Europe for retail e-commerce. Beck estimated that Amazon has at least the following data centers in Ireland:<\/span><\/p>\nAmazon’s latest<\/h2>\n
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