There's another one that appears to run through the Gulf of Mexico to the US as well (looks like AL or LA to TX), so I suspect it's surprisingly cheaper and/or

There's another one that appears to run through the Gulf of Mexico to the US as well (looks like AL or LA to TX), so I suspect it's surprisingly cheaper and/or easier to get policy approval. It's not entirely uncommon to route cables from and to your own country through the water, apparently: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_domestic_submarine_communications_cables https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_domestic_submarine_c...