Google announces new subsea cable links across the Americas under ‘Americas Connect’ initiative

Google just committed to laying thousands of miles of cable on the ocean floor to wire up the Americas like a fiber-optic nervous system. The Alphabet subsidiary announced its “Americas Connect” initiative, introducing three entirely new subsea cable systems, plus a new branch of an existing one, all designed to bolster the company’s cloud and AI infrastructure across the Western Hemisphere. The centerpiece is a trio of new cables: Alisios, Canoa, and OlaLuz. Together with a fresh branch of the established Firmina cable, they will create interconnected subsea rings spanning the Pacific, Caribbean, and Atlantic oceans. The Dominican Republic emerges as the nexus of this entire network. What’s actually getting built The Alisios cable will link the Dominican Republic, Panama, and Chile, threading through the Caribbean and down the Pacific coast of South America. Canoa will run a shorter route connecting the Dominican Republic to Bermuda. OlaLuz will stretch from the Dominican Republic up to Florida, completing a Caribbean triangle of sorts. Then there’s the new branch of Firmina, Google’s existing cable that already connects the US East Coast to South America. That branch will now ext...