Google is developing a facility in the Dominican Republic.

The office of the president of the Dominican Republic last week announced a $500 million investment that will see the search giant build an “international digital exchange hub” in the Caribbean country.

While full details are unclear, the facility will reportedly total 7,000 sqm (75,345 sq ft).

“A digital exchange hub will place the Dominican Republic at the center of information exchange between North, Central, and South America, and will facilitate the country’s capacity to create innovation in artificial intelligence. We are extending to the world the roots of a smart, innovative, and sovereign nation,” said President Luis Abinader.

The initiative also includes the installation of a submarine cable network that will directly connect the country to two points in the US, reportedly South Carolina and Virginia.

The project, presented alongside President Luis Abinader at the National Palace, will triple the number of direct cables to the US and increase the number of fiber pairs tenfold, reducing latency and improving the resilience of digital communications.

Work will reportedly begin in March 2026 and be completed in early 2027, having been declared a high national priority by Decree 113-26 signed by Abinader, which positions the Dominican Republic as a regional connectivity hub for AI, cloud, and data.

Brian Quigley, VP of global network infrastructure at Google, said the initiative will create the necessary infrastructure for the Dominican Republic to consolidate itself as a strategic exchange point between North, South, and Central America.

The Dominican Republic is a Caribbean nation that shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti to the west. Data Center Map lists three facilities in the country, all located around the capital, Santo Domingo, operated by Kio and NAPCaribe.

The Dominican Republic currently lands six subsea cables, all more than a decade old and most more than 20 years old. The AMX-1, SAm-1, and ARCOS systems link the country with the US and South America; the rest connect to neighbouring islands in the Caribbean.

Google has invested in some 30 subsea cables in the past 15 years, more than any other hypescaler, both privately and part of multi-party consortia. Its subsea projects criss-cross the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, with many landing on small island nations that have historically lacked major cable investment.

The company is developing several cables on the Atlantic seaboard of the Americas. Its Nuvem and Sol cables will link the US to Spain and Portugal, with at least one landing point in Bermuda and the Azores islands. Its Firmina and Monet systems link the US to South America.

Google is developing multiple cable landing stations and “connectivity hubs” across a number of island locations in the Pacific and around Oceania to support its network build-out.

This piece was automatically translated from DCD’s Spanish site and edited by a member of DCD staff.