Google is running a private cable underneath the Atlantic Ocean to speed up its infrastructure GOOG, GOOGL, AMZN, MSFT

Get the Full StoryGreg Sandoval Business Insider

Google is building its own private subsea cable — named Dunant — between the U.S. and France, which will boost the span and reach of Google Cloud.

The company expects the cable to be up and running by 2020.

This won't be Google's first privately-owned cable. The company is also building Curie, which will connect Los Angeles and Chile.

Google is going under the sea so its cloud infrastructure can better take on rivals Amazon and Microsoft.

The search engine giant announced on Tuesday that it is building its own private underwater cable between the U.S. and France. The cable will be named Dunant, after Henry Dunant, the founder of the Nobel Peace Prize, who was the first recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.See the rest of the story at Business InsiderNOW WATCH: North Korean defector: Kim Jong Un 'is a terrorist'See Also:Share your opinion Become a BI Insider todayThis 1.26 billion company made a big bet on Google over Microsoft for 10,000 employees four years ago, and it never looked backCisco shares plunge 4 after a report says Amazon could go after Cisco's core networking business

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