I welcome news of Aqua Comms DAC (“Aqua Comms”) recently announced commercial plans to lay and operate a new subsea cable system connecting New Jersey, USA, to Ireland, and Denmark.
My understanding is that the Havfrue subsea cable is the first new undersea cable traversing the North Atlantic to connect mainland Northern Europe to the US in nearly two decades. Aqua Comms will market and sell capacity services and raw spectrum on its portion of the cable.
The laying of the Havfrue or AEC-2 cable system, together with existing systems owned and operated by Aqua Comms, will create a resilient, ring-based infrastructure between the East Coast of the US, Ireland, and Northern Europe, connecting the hubs of the pan-Atlantic hyperscale data centre industry in North America, Ireland, and Scandinavia.
As to the intentions of Aquacomms and their investment my Department does not have access to the infrastructure plans of commercial operators. Queries related to the deployment of infrastructure by private commercial operators should be directed to the relevant operator, in this case Aqua Comms DAC, whose website is www.aquacomms.com.
