Take the Eastern Seaboard alone, where fiber-optic bundles of over 20 Transatlantic circuits make landfall in nondescript, secured buildings. These touchpoints cluster around the Tri-State area and Miami, linking the U.S. to Europe, Africa, and Central and South America with over 185,000 kilometers of cable. Once incoming data wash ashore, these nodes forward information onto regional nerve centers like 60 Hudson Street in New York City or Chicago’s sprawling, unseen data complex, and beyond.
