Google lays sea cables

GOOGLE is adding three new undersea data cables as it continues to bulk up its ability to power cloud services around the world.

One of the cables, which will be commissioned next year, will be the subsea Hong Kong-Guam cable in the Pacific Ocean, which will improve capacity between Australia and Asia.

The internet behemoth has spent $30 billion improving its infrastructure in the past three years, and “we’re not done yet,” according to Google’s cloud platform vice-president, Ben Treynor Sloss.