Google’s ‘America-India connect’ plan expands tech empire, threatens U.S. digital sovereignty

Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies in a House hearing Dec. 11, 2018.

Google has unveiled a massive new infrastructure initiative that will stretch high-capacity fiber-optic cables between the United States and India, a development with sweeping implications for national digital sovereignty, global artificial-intelligence domination and America’s economic future.

The project, called America-India Connect, was announced this week at a high-profile AI summit in New Delhi by Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai.