Google’s Curie Undersea Cable Now Connects the US and Chile By Christine Fisher, Endgadget November 14, 2019 Curie, a 10,500-kilometer-long undersea cable, now connects Google data centers in the US and Chile. Today, Google announced that the fiber optic cable has been successfully installed and tested. It is expected to begin transmitting data in the [...]
Google Data Center Project in Uruguay Under Way By MercoPress November 5, 2019 Google plans to build a data centre for storage and server management within Uruguay's Science Park in the Canelones area, it was announced. It will be Google's second such facility in Latin America, the other one being in Chile. The US giant [...]
Google Plans Second Chilean Data Center By Will Calvert, Data Centre Dynamics July 24, 2019 Environmental assessment filings reveal $200m project Google is planning to build a $200 million data center campus in Santiago, Chile - the company’s second in the both the country and Latin America. The cloud giant has submitted a filing to [...]
Google Announces Equiano Cable Linking Africa and Europe By Peter Judge, Data Centre Dynamics June 28, 2019 Google has announced a new private submarine cable between Africa and Europe. Equiano will initially link Portugal to South Africa, with branches planned in Nigeria and potentially other African countries. Due to be in operation by 2021 and [...]
Google Completes Subsea Cable to Chile in Global Cloud Push By Natalie Ramos, Adam Jourdan, G Crosse, Reuters April 23, 2019 SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc’s Google has completed a 10,000-kilometer (6,214-mile) subsea cable linking the coast of California to Chile, a key step in its plans to bolster its global cloud computing infrastructure. The [...]
Google Selects Equinix for Curie Subsea Cable Landing Station Equinix Press Release February 7, 2019 REDWOOD CITY, Calif. /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that Google has selected Equinix for its Los Angeles area cable landing station (CLS) supporting the Curie subsea cable system, the first subsea cable to Chile [...]
By Ben Treynor Sloss, Google January 16, 2018 At Google, we've spent $30 billion improving our infrastructure over three years, and we’re not done yet. From data centers to subsea cables, Google is committed to connecting the world and serving our Cloud customers, and today we’re excited to announce that we’re adding three new subsea [...]