{"id":936,"date":"2025-07-11T07:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T07:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/936\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T07:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T07:37:12","slug":"400-million-plan-to-turn-perth-into-a-global-bridge-for-internet-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/936\/","title":{"rendered":"$400 million plan to turn Perth into a global bridge for internet traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roger Cook has boasted Perth could become the Dubai of data, with a $400 million sub-sea cable set to turn WA into the middle point of global internet connections.<\/p>\n

The Premier was in Henderson on Friday to inspect the world\u2019s largest submarine cable installation vessel and left his mark, signing Australia\u2019s first \u201chypercable\u201d that can transmit 400 terabits of data per second, 25 times faster than previously possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cA movie is like a gigabyte, so you can do 400,000 movies in a second. It\u2019s a lot of Netflix,\u201d Subco chief executive Bevan Slattery said.<\/p>\n

\"SubCoCamera IconSubCo CEO Bevan Slattery at a press conference on subsea digital cable installation on Friday morning. Credit: Riley Churchman\/The West Australian<\/p>\n

Mr Cook called it an \u201cincredibly exciting\u201d project that will turn Perth into a data hub for high-tech industries.<\/p>\n

\u201cPerth is about to become the equivalent of the Dubai airport for international data,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to be the focal point as companies and governments around the world seek to diversify their global data links to continue to make sure that in these globally uncertain times everyone stays connected.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PremierCamera IconPremier Roger Cook at a press conference on subsea digital cable installation on Friday morning. Credit: Riley Churchman\/The West Australian<\/p>\n

The sub-sea cable will stretch 5000 kilometres on the ocean floor, transmitting from Perth to Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, but Mr Cook and Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King suggested the \u201cSMAP\u201d project should be renamed \u201cPAMS\u201d because \u201cPerth comes first\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis project will go a long way to helping the people of Sydney and Melbourne to overcome that feeling of isolation they have long endured being so far from WA, the engine room of our national economy,\u201d Ms King told reporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cResilience in our connectivity is really important and, all jokes aside about helping Sydney and Melbourne being more connected to Asia, that resilience in our transcontinental communications and data transference is a matter of national significance and national sovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cable connecting Perth to the Eastern seaboard will combine with cables already connecting Perth to Singapore and Oman, creating a global conduit for data storage.<\/p>\n

\"ACamera IconA SubCo subsea digital cable signed by Roger Cook on Friday morning. Credit: Riley Churchman\/The West Australian<\/p>\n

\u201cPerth is at an incredibly strategic location to secure deep water, reliable, resilient connectivity needs with great sovereign capability,\u201d Mr Slattery said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019ve chosen Perth as being the new super hub, for me anyway, for the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoogle has also announced they\u2019re putting three cables in here as well (because) if you can get to Sydney, we\u2019ll take you to Perth and then we can give you access to everywhere in the Indian Ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roger Cook has boasted Perth could become the Dubai of data, with a $400 million sub-sea cable set…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[174,3,111,1162,74,140],"class_list":{"0":"post-936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-politics","11":"tag-state-politics","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-wa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}