7,000 km of subsea cables link Portugal to US: what is the 'Nuvem' system?

Per Euronews, Google is building a transatlantic submarine cable called Nuvem—seven thousand kilometers of undersea fiber linking Portugal, Bermuda, and the United States. Announced in twenty twenty-three, it's part of Google's infrastructure to support global connectivity. Submarine cables carry virtually all intercontinental data traffic—most of the internet's backbone runs through them.

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