Amazon has filed for planning permission to build a cable landing station (CLS) in Cork, Ireland.

First reported by the Southern Star, the cloud giant last month filed with Cork County Council to develop a CLS in Clonakilty.

The project, set to be located at Tullyneasky West, will see the demolition of two existing buildings and the construction of a CLS, an ESB substation, switch room building, and external plant infrastructure, including generators and fuel tanks.

Further details on the development, filed via Amazon MCS Ireland Ltd, haven’t been shared.

A decision from the council is due in February.

The CLS will support Amazon’s planned Fastnet cable linking Ireland to the US. The system will run from Cork to Maryland. Set to be the company’s first private cable, Fastnet will offer more than 320Tbps of capacity when operational in 2028.

News that Amazon was planning a cable linking the two countries surfaced in January 2025 via an application with the Irish maritime agency, and was officially announced in November.

Most of Ireland’s subsea cables land around Dublin on the east coast or on the west coast around Mayo or Galway. The only cable to land in County Cork is Exa’s Exa Express cable, which lands at the Cork Internet eXchange/CloudCIX on the Hollyhill Industrial Estate in Cork.

Amazon is a part-owner or major capacity buyer of the Havfrue, Hawaiki, Jupiter, and Marea subsea cables. Launched in 2020, Havfrue (also known as AEC-2) links the US to Ireland, Norway, and Denmark. Aqua Comms is the landing party in Lecanvey, County Mayo, for the Irish portion of the cable.

Amazon is also working with Vodafone on the Beaufort cable, which is set to link Ireland to the UK. Due to land at the former ESAT 1 landing station at Kilmore Quay in Wexford on the Irish side, its planned landing site on the UK side is Bude in England and Port Eynon in Wales. The cable was originally due for service in 2024.

Amazon also has a Kuiper/Leo satellite ground station in Cork at the National Space Centre (aka Elfordstown Earthstation) in Elfordstown, Midleton.