Google to build undersea fiber-optic cable to connect US, Britain and Spain
Google is set to build its new Grace Hopper fiber-optic cable to improve its services that will connect New York to Bude in the UK and Bilbao in Spain.
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The cable will be used to power Google services like Meet, Gmail and Google Cloud and will provide “better resilience for the network that underpins Google’s consumer and enterprise products,” Google said.
“Once commissioned, the Grace Hopper cable will be one of the first new cables to connect the U.S. and U.K. since 2003, increasing capacity on this busy global crossroads and powering Google services like Meet, Gmail and Google Cloud,” said Bikash Koley, vice president of Google Global Network, in a blog post.
“It also marks our first investment in a private subsea cable route to the U.K., and our first-ever route to Spain,” Koley said.
“The Spanish landing point will more tightly integrate the upcoming Google Cloud region in Madrid into our global infrastructure.”
The cable will run along the ocean floor from New York to the Cornish seaside resort town of Bude in the UK and then onto Bilbao in Spain.
Google already operates several other subsea cables including one from Portugal to South Africa called Equiano and another called Dunant that connects the US and France.
Google did not say how much the new cable is costing the company or who will be working on the cable.