--- title: Google investment to boost Dominican Republic’s international connectivity - Developing Telecoms description: Google has announced an investment of US$500 million in the construction of submarine cables and an international digital exchange port for the Dominican Republic. This will apparently be the company’s eighth digital exchange port in the world and the first in Latin America. canonical_url: https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/optical-fixed-networks/19811-google-investment-to-boost-dominican-republics-international-connectivity.html language: en-GB date: 2026-02-23T17:23:43Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/optical-fixed-networks/19811-google-investment-to-boost-dominican-republics-international-connectivity.html. Schema.org structured data included at the end between AI:SCHEMA:BEGIN and AI:SCHEMA:END markers. markdown-tokens: 1416 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/optical-fixed-networks/19811-google-investment-to-boost-dominican-republics-international-connectivity.html. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Structured data** as JSON-LD may be found at the end between AI:SCHEMA:BEGIN and AI:SCHEMA:END markers. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. Google has announced an investment of US$500 million in the construction of submarine cables and an international digital exchange port for the Dominican Republic. This will apparently be the company’s eighth digital exchange port in the world and the first in Latin America. This is also said to be the first international submarine cable ring to the continental United States from the Dominican Republic. The company will develop an open and neutral infrastructure with the capacity to host four new international submarine cables. A first phase will involve the installation of two new submarine cables between the Dominican Republic and the United States, which will be added to the existing one between the two countries. Construction will begin in March. Dominican President Luis Abinader signed a decree late last week, declaring the construction of digital exchange ports and the installation, deployment, and operation of submarine cable systems a matter of high national priority. Local press reports say the decree seeks to strengthen digital infrastructure, expand international connectivity, and position the Dominican Republic as a regional hub for artificial intelligence. Indeed, the thinking is that a digital exchange port will place the Dominican Republic at the centre of information exchange between North America, Central America and South America. The new infrastructure will make it possible to multiply by ten the number of fibre optic pairs that currently connect the two territories, in addition to offering diversified connectivity and reduced latency to the South Carolina and Virginia Google Cloud regions in the US. According to the BNamericas news service, the country has five other submarine cables in operation that connect it with Caribbean territories and, from there, with the continent, although some are approaching the end of their useful life. According to the government, internet traffic in the Dominican Republic has increased 500% in the last five years; more than 35% comes from the United States. Artificial intelligence is undoubtedly a strong government focus. Last year the Dominican Republic signed an agreement with AI and accelerated computing company Nvidia, to establish a Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (CEIA). Also last year, the regulator Indotel and the Centro de Inteligencia Pública (CIP) signed a cooperation agreement to create an AI academy in the country, to accelerate training in AI. ```json { "@context": "http:\/\/schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Article", "author": { "@id": "https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/#vaughan_o_grady_640e701a34" }, "dateModified": "2026-02-23T17:23:43Z", "datePublished": "2026-02-23T17:23:43Z", "description": "Google has announced an investment of US$500 million in the construction of submarine cables and an international digital exchange port for the Dominican Republic. 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