{"id":916153,"date":"2026-04-24T20:52:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/916153\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T20:52:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:52:25","slug":"new-submarine-cable-planned-between-iceland-and-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/916153\/","title":{"rendered":"New Submarine Cable Planned Between Iceland and Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-fusion-400 wp-image-30643\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/slider05_20260424-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"New Iceland\u2013Scotland subsea cable proposed to boost connectivity, redundancy, and support growing data center demand.\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\"  data- data-orig-\/>By Michael Chapman, Iceland Review<br \/>April 23, 2026<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"97\" data-end=\"212\">Preparations are under way for a new submarine cable linking Iceland to Scotland, with completion expected by 2030.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"214\" data-end=\"486\">As\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visir.is\/g\/20262873244d\/nyr-saestrengur-fra-skotlandi-i-bigerd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reported by V\u00edsir<\/a>, the project is being led by\u00a0Farice, which operates existing connections including <a href=\"https:\/\/subtelforum.com\/submarine-cable-map\/farice-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FARICE-1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/subtelforum.com\/submarine-cable-map\/danice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">DANICE<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/subtelforum.com\/submarine-cable-map\/iris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u00cdRIS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"97\" data-end=\"212\">Preparations are under way for a new submarine cable linking Iceland to Scotland, with completion expected by 2030.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"214\" data-end=\"486\">As\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visir.is\/g\/20262873244d\/nyr-saestrengur-fra-skotlandi-i-bigerd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reported by V\u00edsir<\/a>, the project is being led by\u00a0Farice, which operates existing connections including FARICE-1, DANICE and \u00cdRIS.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"214\" data-end=\"486\">The new cable, named AU\u00d0UR after the historical figure\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aud_the_Deep-Minded_(Ketilsd%C3%B3ttir)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Au\u00f0ur \u00dej\u00fap\u00fa\u00f0ga<\/a>, is intended to replace the company\u2019s oldest system, FARICE-1.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"488\" data-end=\"740\">According to Farice, the cable will run from southern Iceland to a new landing point in either Glasgow or Edinburgh. From there, it will connect to major European telecommunications hubs such as London, Dublin and Amsterdam, as well as Nordic networks.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"742\" data-end=\"947\">In a statement, the company said the development would expand network capacity and reduce data transit times between Iceland and Europe. A seabed survey is scheduled for summer 2027, ahead of construction.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"949\" data-end=\"1017\">The project is expected to be financed without direct state funding.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"949\" data-end=\"1017\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icelandreview.com\/news\/new-submarine-cable-planned-between-iceland-and-scotland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Michael Chapman, Iceland ReviewApril 23, 2026 Preparations are under way for a new submarine cable linking Iceland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,3835,299,257038,4884,7059,6084,712,257039,16,15],"class_list":["post-916153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scotland","tag-britain","tag-connectivity","tag-europe","tag-farice","tag-great-britain","tag-iceland","tag-infrastructure","tag-scotland","tag-subsea-cable","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116461669368969576","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}