A cable landing station has opened in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina that will be the western nexus of the Nuvem undersea cable being built and financed by Google, and connecting to Bermuda and Portugal.

Nuvem, which is set for completion in 2026, will be the first new cable landing at the island in more than 15 years.

DC Blox owns and operates interconnected multi-tenant data centres and dark-fibre solutions that deliver infrastructure and connectivity essential to power digital business.

With design capacity at full build-out of 125,000 square feet and 19 megawatts of power, the company said, its new CLS can host up to five subsea cables and co-location space for network and cable operators, communications providers, local enterprises and partners.

DC Blox said the new CLS positions Myrtle Beach as a vital connectivity hub globally, providing geographic diversity and resilience from existing subsea fibre routes.

The organisation is also building a dark-fibre route from its Myrtle Beach CLS to Atlanta's communications hub, the first direct east-to-west route enabling high-capacity direct access to hundreds of communications providers and to a rapidly growing population of regional data centres.

Google has announced two subsea cables that will land at the DC Blox CLS including the Firmina cable connecting Myrtle Beach to Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay and the Nuvem cable.

Edge Holdings, a subsidiary of Meta, plans to land its Anjana cable connecting to Spain.

“South Carolina is a growing innovation hub, bringing in new economic opportunities through digital infrastructure and other technology investments,” said Lee Livingston, director of partnerships at Google.

“We look forward to the continued partnership with our neighbours in Myrtle Beach, and are committed to making sure the Firmina and Nuvem subsea cables deliver lasting benefits to the state.”