VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — A Virginia Beach company broke ground Monday on a subsea cable fiber-optic project.
The company, Globalinx, said the project will accommodate four new subsea cables at its Sandbridge landing site and is expected to more than double its capacity at its Corporate Landing Business Park facility.
Upon the project’s completion, the seven tunnel bores will represent the most operated by a single company on the east coast.
“Ninety-seven percent of all the data traffic in the world goes through subsea cables,” said Greg Twitt, owner and CEO of Globalinx Data Centers. “To date, we have three subsea cables in Virginia Beach, and over the next four or five years, this infrastructure will give us seven.”
The company stated the expansion is expected to increase Virginia’s subsea capacity by more than 400%. Much of the internet traffic will go to northern Virginia — home to the largest concentration of data centers in the world.
“Globalinx has worked long and hard to bring this subsea infrastructure to fruition for the benefit of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and particularly Hampton Roads,” Twitt said. “With a plethora of regulations, permitting, local permissions and construction, among other obstacles, landing subsea cables requires a lot of expertise, energy, patience and capital. At the end day, when a company succeeds in doing so, it adds another layer of redundancy, resilience and capacity to a rapidly increasing need in preparation for present and future AI and cloud needs.”
The company also stated that once the project is complete, Corporate Landing Business Park will be able to connect two terrestrial subsea landing routes, allowing the station to be available for tenants to extend their reach into Europe, Africa, East Asia, the Caribbean and the Americas.
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