Google Cable Landing Station at UH West Oʻahu
Google · Kapolei, HI · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- ProposedSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 21.35761, -158.05734
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Not established
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-02
Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.
Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.
Reported lifecycle history
- Proposed
UH announced a Google cable landing station on about four acres of the UH West Oʻahu campus under a long-term lease the Board of Regents approved in 2024. Earliest estimated completion: 2026.
Underlying source
Source notes
Google is to design, build, operate and maintain a cable landing station on about four acres of the UH West Oʻahu campus under a long-term lease. It will serve three new trans-Pacific subsea cables, part of a $1B system; that is a program-level figure, not this site's investment. The cables land at Barbers Point Beach Park and run about 5.3 miles underground in public roads to the campus. Permits for the project: DLNR FONSI (September 2025), Army Corps Nationwide Permit 57 (October 2025), BLNR CDUA and easement with an immediate construction right-of-entry (April 2026), and Honolulu SMA Major Permit (Resolution 26-165, Committee Report 212(26), adopted 2026-08-12). The permit applicants are Starfish Infrastructure Inc. and Humuhumu Services, LLC; their corporate tie to Google is not stated in the fetched documents. The applicant told the Council the building will occupy about 2 acres of the 4-acre site, and that it is 'used for the transport of subsea cables, and is not a data center containing servers that process and store vast amounts of digital data.' It is tracked as a cable landing station, like other CLS records. Status is held at proposed because no source confirmed construction has started at the campus building; the permits mainly cover the beach and submerged-land segments. This is a different site from the Hawaiki CLS expansion at Kahe (Kapolei Cable Landing Station). Coordinates are the OSM campus pin; where the station sits on campus is not public.
Sources and provenance
- UH West Oʻahu campus proposed gateway for Google's $1B global fiber system · source retrieved 2026-10-02
- Committee Report 212(26), Resolution 26-165: SMA Major Permit for the Oʻahu Subsea Cable Telecommunications Project · source retrieved 2026-10-02
- BLNR submittal D-7: Grant of easement to Humuhumu Services, LLC and Starfish Infrastructure, Inc. for submarine communication cables off Kapolei · source retrieved 2026-10-02
- OSM Nominatim: University of Hawaii-West Oahu · source retrieved 2026-10-02
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.