Google Announces Cloud Interconnect sites in Lagos, Johannesburg, Others

Google has announced the building of dedicated Cloud Interconnect sites in Lagos, Johannesburg, Nairobi and Cape Town.

The news, which came at the second Google for Africa event, is the latest example of how it is delivering on the $1 billion investment commitment made last year by the company’s CEO, Sundar Pichai.

He said the Cloud region, which will be in South Africa, will help users, developers, businesses and educational institutions across Africa to move more information and tools online, improve access options for customers and in turn, create jobs.

Google Cloud is already working with customers across the continent, helping them solve business-critical challenges, get online, and access the benefits of digital technology.

Google also announced the launch of voice typing support for nine more African languages in Gboard, the Google keyboard (isiNdebele, isiXhosa, Kinyarwanda, Northern Sotho, Swati, Sesotho, Tswana, Tshivenda and Xitsonga), while 24 new languages are now supported on Google Translate, including Lingala, which is used by more than 45 million people across Central Africa.

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