The initiative, branded “America-India Connect”, will introduce new high-capacity pathways from India’s east and west coasts, reinforcing resilience as demand for cloud and AI workloads accelerates.
Two of the cables will land in Visakhapatnam, establishing a new international gateway on India’s east coast, alongside existing hubs in Mumbai and Chennai. A third will connect India’s west coast to Australia, creating an additional Pacific corridor towards North America.
One route will link India to South Africa, integrating with Google’s existing Equiano and Nuvem systems to provide onward connectivity towards the US East Coast via Africa. A second will connect to Singapore, tying into the Bosun and Tabua networks to extend reach across Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
The third system will connect to Western Australia and interoperate with TalayLink and Honomoana, strengthening trans-Pacific capacity.
Together, the three systems aim to reduce dependency on traditional chokepoints while improving latency, redundancy and route diversity between India and the US.
For hyperscale operators and wholesale carriers alike, diversified subsea architecture has become a strategic priority amid geopolitical risk and rising bandwidth consumption driven by AI training, inference and enterprise cloud adoption.
The project forms part of a broader multi-year infrastructure push by Google in India, spanning data centre investment, cloud expansion and digital skills development. The company has positioned India as a critical growth market for AI services, with subsea capacity forming the backbone of that strategy.
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