That’s how most of the internet works. There are hundreds of undersea cables going around the planet: https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
Google likely just wanted their own cable instead of paying to use someone else’s.
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It’s not a continueous cable. There arerepeating amplifiers every 10km or so. It’s all spliced up into a giant spool on the ship, as shown in the other thread.
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