New Pacific undersea cable can beam 60 terabits of a data per second

There's a lot of water between the continental U.S. and Japan, which makes sending data back and forth a little bit difficult.

In an effort to boost trans-Pacific Internet speeds and offer more services to Japan, Google announced it helped fund a super-long fiber-optic cable that spans the ocean, which is up and running as of Thursday.

The cable can beam up to 60 terabits per second

The cable can beam up to 60 terabits per second, of which 10Tbps are allocated specifically for Google. That kind of bandwidth makes this the highest-capacity undersea cable in the world.

While this cable will bring faster data rates between the two countries, it also paves the way for Google to launch a new Google Cloud Platform region in Tokyo, allowing Japan-based Google Cloud users to dole out cloud content to anyone in the world at a much faster rate than before.

The new cable lands at two points in Japan specifically located outside of tsunami zones. In case a tsunami hits, the cables likely won't be damaged and those affected will have much-needed access to the Internet.

FASTER Consortium, a global Internet infrastructure investment group, brought the undersea cable to fruition. Google, China Mobile International, China Telecom Global, Global Transit, KDDI and Singtel make up FASTER, and Japanese tech company NEC built the cable.

This marks Google's fourth undersea cable, and the company said it plans on building more.

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