Lisbon went live in 2026 in LIS1 in Carnaxide, a suburb on the Tagus's north bank chosen because the transatlantic cables from Brazil land within sight of it. We joined GIGAPIX with Arelion as our only carrier — the quietest port in the fleet — and the first ping to São Paulo came back at 100 ms, which the engineers logged as the shortest Europe–Brazil path in the catalogue.
The site runs 0.22 Tbit/s of edge capacity at a 3 ms local median, 5 ms from Madrid and 87 ms from Miami. Portugal is where Europe runs out of land going west, which is exactly why Lisbon exists: the Atlantic's south-west shelf, for the users who live on the western edge and the traffic that crosses the ocean.