Google's private underwater fibre-optic cable

The search giant’s private cable will travel to the US from Bude in Cornwall. GETTY IMAGES. Google is to build its first giant underwater fibre-optic cable stretching from Cornwall to New York to help boost internet speeds. The search giant is laying its own private internet cable from Bude in the UK, and from Bilbao in Spain, that will then connect up under the Atlantic Ocean before travelling to the US. It is one of the first undersea internet cables to connect the US and the UK since 2003 and the first one to do so that is fully owned by Google.