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Google to help build the first subsea cable directly connecting South America with Asia-Pacific
Google is set to build a new subsea cable connecting Chile with Australia -- the first such cable to connect South America with Asia-Pacific.
Indeed, Google completed its first entirely private cable project four years ago with Curie, connecting California with Chile. As with its other similar endeavors, Humboldt is designed to improve data transfers around the world, working in tandem with Google’s other infrastructure projects, including local data centers on the ground in Chile — it’s all about promising its customers lower-latency, while the countries themselves benefit from a more robust internet infrastructure. Tech companies including Meta, Microsoft and Amazon have also invested in various internet infrastructure programs, and alongside Google the quartet are said to either own or lease around half of all subsea cabling bandwidth.
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