Digital Realty Plans Cable Landing Station at Los Angeles Data Center

A cable landing station is where underwater cables that carry international data connections reach the shore and connect to land-based networks. Digital Reality is building one inside its data center in El Segundo, California, designed to serve cable routes between Asia-Pacific and North America starting in 2028. Rather than treating the landing station as separate infrastructure, this approach integrates it directly into an established data center and interconnection environment, creating a more efficient path for subsea capacity to reach the networks and cloud providers that use it. The investment is driven by multiple factors including AI's demand for high-capacity connectivity, cloud adoption, content delivery, and broader digital infrastructure growth.