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Google says undersea cables created over 64,000 jobs in Taiwan (Taipei Times)

29 September 2023

US-based tech giant Google said this week that its efforts to build four underseas cables to connect Taiwan with the world had created more than 64,000 jobs and generated about USD 26 billion in GDP for Taiwan as of 2021, reports The Taipei Times. The four undersea cables are part of the company’s investments in cloud infrastructure in Taiwan, and on the back of the undersea cables, a data centre and a Google Cloud Region, which is a geographic area in which Google provides infrastructure and services for deploying applications, Google said in a statement. Google added that it will continue its ‘Intelligent Taiwan’ plan by investing more in cloud infrastructure in the country, with an aim to build Taiwan as the Silicon Valley in Asia.