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Google Cloud will add Montreal, the Netherlands, Los Angeles, Finland, and Hong Kong as new cloud computing regions. Google will also invest in three new undersea cables:

Google is extending its cloud computing infrastructure with the introduction of five new regions and plans to build its own undersea cable.

The advertising-to-cloud-computing giant said its new Netherlands and Montreal cloud computing regions will open in the first quarter of 2018, followed by Los Angeles, Finland, and Hong Kong.

Like other cloud infrastructure companies, Google orders its cloud computing resources into regions which are then subdivided into zones, which include one or more data centers from which customers can run their services. It currently has 15 regions made up of 44 zones.

The new cables will connect Los Angeles to Chile, the U.S. to Denmark and Ireland, and Hong Kong to Guam. The Los Angeles to Chile cable will be Google's first private undersea cable.

Google will be investing in a total of 11 undersea cables, although it would prefer not to be in the cable-building consortium business.

Also at WSJ, Reuters, and CNBC.

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