MANTA Picks MDC to Open Mexico's Digital Coast

MANTA taps MDC Data Centers to build carrier-neutral Cable Landing Hubs in Cancun and Veracruz, opening the Americas corridor to real competition

2 Jun 2026

Two coastal cities just became pivotal nodes in the Americas digital corridor. MDC Data Centers has been chosen by the MANTA subsea cable consortium to build carrier-neutral Cable Landing Hubs in Cancun and Veracruz, bringing open interconnection infrastructure to the Mexican coastline for the first time at this scale.

MANTA connects Mexico and the US to Central and Latin America, with data hubs in Mexico City, Querétaro, Bogotá, and Panama City, landing in the US at San Blas, Florida. Each MDC facility pairs a cable landing station with a neutral interconnection environment, letting carriers, cloud providers, and content platforms connect directly rather than routing through proprietary gateways. Both sites scale to 5MW through modular 1MW expansions, built to grow alongside demand.

MDC already anchors neutral interconnection along the US-Mexico border through its BorderConnect Platform, where open access and multi-carrier governance define daily operations. Cancun and Veracruz extend that footprint to the coast, with Querétaro serving as the primary inland destination for traffic clearing both hubs.

Redundancy runs deep in the design. Sparkle's fiber network spanning more than 600,000 km ties MANTA to its DC Panama Digital Gateway, while Liberty Networks contributes nearly 60,000 km of submarine and terrestrial fiber across Latin America and the Caribbean. Together, they provide the kind of multi-path resilience that reduces reliance on any single cable or route.

For businesses and consumers across Latin America, the stakes are practical. Open landing infrastructure puts more carriers into competition, raises capacity, and dismantles the bottleneck model that has historically made single points of failure so costly. As cloud and AI traffic volumes climb, physical infrastructure built in the right places matters more, not less. This deal puts it exactly where the map has long been thin.