Google has acquired land in Santander, Spain, for a planned cable landing station (CLS).

The search giant has bought a plot in the Cantabria Science and Technology Park (PCTCAN), the park announced this week.

Google has acquired 5,900 sqm (63,505 sq ft) in the park to develop a cable landing station to support its planned Sol subsea cable. Full details on the project haven't been shared.

“Google chooses Cantabria,” María José Sáenz de Buruaga, president of the regional government, said on X. “Our region will become a strategic digital connection point between Europe and the United States thanks to the Sol submarine cable and the new data transmission center that the company will build in PCTCAN.”

Google announced plans for Sol in July 2025. The 7,620km system will connect the US, Bermuda, the Azores, and Spain. Scheduled to go live in 2027, the 16-fiber-pair system will offer around 392Tbps of capacity.

Sol is set to land in Palm Coast, Florida, at a new DC Blox CLS. The company is developing its own landing stations in Bermuda and Lagoa in the Azores.

Google previously announced it was partnering with Telefónica’s Telxius to land the Sol cable in Santander.

According to an FCC filing, Google is operating through Starfish Infrastructure Inc. for the wider project, and Cardinal Fish Infrastructure, S.L., and Lanternfish Services, S.L. for the Spanish landing. The filing says Google will develop and own a new CLS in the Cantabria Region.

Sol translates to “sun” in Spanish and Portuguese, which the search giant said was a nod to the cable system’s landing points in warmer climates.

Santander, on Spain’s northern coast, is the landing point for the other end of Meta’s Anjana cable, hosted within Telxius’ landing station.

Google has invested in some 30 subsea cables in the past 15 years, more than any other hyperscaler, both privately and part of multi-party consortia. The search giant is developing multiple cable landing stations and “connectivity hubs” across a number of locations to support its network build-out.