Google to build $200 million Data Centre in Fiji

More business opportunities are expected for the country as Google will be building a $200 million Data Centre in Fiji.

While highlighting some of the Government’s achievements in the past 19 months on fijivillage Straight Talk with Vijay Narayan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade, Cooperatives and Small Medium Enterprises, Manoa Kamikamica says Google connectivity brings a serious opportunity for Fiji to become a really genuine ICT player and become more of a regional hub for the Pacific.

Kamikamica says he cannot comment on where exactly the Centre will be built, but it is going to be definitely in Fiji. The Deputy Prime Minister also highlighted that Google is not only investing in the country but is also bringing four Subsea cable connections into Fiji.

He says before Google came to see them late last year, Fiji had only had one Subsea Cable.

Kamikamica says the four connections are US, Hawaii, and Fiji.

He says one cable runs from Fiji to Australia, and another cable is going to run from Australia to French Polynesia, Tahiti, South America, and Chile.

The Deputy Prime Minister says another cable will run from Fiji to Guam and then to Japan.

He adds that what they have created, through Google, is an opportunity to be quite resilient when it comes to data centres, and we can also start creating other industries.