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Google to Build International Digital Exchange Hub in the Dominican Republic
By Guzmán Ariza, Attorneys at Law
The government of the Dominican Republic and Google announced a formal agreement for the construction of an international digital exchange hub — a new infrastructure initiative aimed at expanding the country’s connectivity capacity and integration into global data networks. The project was declared a matter of high national priority through Decree 113-26, signed by President Luis Abinader.
Under the terms of the agreement, Google will invest approximately USD 500 million in the construction of a digital exchange facility and associated subsea telecommunications infrastructure. This investment marks the first such hub in Latin America and the company’s eighth digital exchange port globally.
The planned installation will include a dedicated building of more than 7,000 square meters designed to host digital networking equipment and data exchange systems. The facility will support the landing of up to four international submarine fiber-optic cables. In its initial stage, two new submarine cables will be deployed to establish direct connections between the Dominican Republic and the continental United States.
Before this project, the Dominican Republic was connected to the global network through six existing submarine cables, five of which are older infrastructure nearing the end of their expected life span. Only one of these cables offers a direct landing to the United States. The new cables associated with the digital exchange hub will increase direct connections to the U.S. from one to three and will multiply by ten the number of fiber pairs available for international data transmission.
The design of the exchange hub also includes an international submarine cable ring, which will route traffic through two designated Google Cloud regions in the United States — located in South Carolina and Virginia — to facilitate data transport with lower latency and higher capacity.
According to the announcement, the installation of these cables and the digital exchange hub is expected to increase overall data transmission capacity, reduce latency for digital services, and improve redundancy in international connectivity to avoid service interruptions due to single points of failure.
The project is situated within broader national efforts to strengthen the country’s technological infrastructure, diversify digital routes, and position the Dominican Republic as a regional node in the flow of data between North, Central, and South America.
Construction of the digital exchange hub was scheduled to begin in March 2026, with operations expected to follow in subsequent phases.
Guzmán Ariza, Attorneys at Law
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