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Google Cable Landing Station at UH West Oʻahu

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ProposedNo reception on recordRecord updated October 2, 2026

Google Cable Landing Station at UH West Oʻahu is a proposed data center in Kapolei, Hawaii (Honolulu County), operated by Google. The public record puts it at announced July 2025, 4 acres.

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Facility record

Proposed

Operator: Google
Facility type: Data center
Location: Kapolei, Honolulu County, HI
Coordinates: 21.3576, -158.0573 (approximate)
Power capacity: Not established from a public source
Land: 4 acres
Investment: Not established from a public source
Announced: July 2025
Utility: Not established from a public source
Cooling: Not established from a public source
Water use: Not established from a public source
Jobs: Not established from a public source
Public subsidy: Not established from a public source
Community reception: No reception on record
Source confidence: Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

July 2025
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. Source: University of Hawaiʻi News

Opposition and litigation at this site

Nothing on record as of October 2, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Google Cable Landing Station at UH West Oʻahu in Kapolei, Honolulu County, Hawaii appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.

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Notes on the record

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 (hawaiki-cable-kapolei-hi). Coordinates are the OSM campus pin; where the station sits on campus is not public.

What the record does not establish, and the document that would

In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.

Power capacity in megawatts
Cooling method and water use
Tax abatements or other public subsidy
Permanent jobs promised
How the community has received it
Which utility serves it

Which document closes each gap

Power capacity in megawatts: The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
Cooling method and water use: The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
Tax abatements or other public subsidy: The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
Permanent jobs promised: The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
How the community has received it: Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
Which utility serves it: The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.

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Other sites within 30 miles

Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.

AlohaNAP (1547 HAII1) · Kapolei · fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547)2 mi · Operating · 2.7 MW
Kapolei Cable Landing Station · Kapolei · Hawaiki Submarine Cable USA LLC (BW Digital)5 mi · Operating
Cogent Data Center, Hawaii (96-1402 Waihona Place) · Pearl City · Cogent Communications6 mi · Operating · 0.8 MW
Servpac MTP Building 2 · Mililani · Servpac7 mi · Under construction
Servpac MTP Data Center (Building 1) · Mililani · Servpac9 mi · Operating
DRFortress Data Center · Honolulu · DRFortress9 mi · Operating
Lumen Honolulu (550 Paiea Street) · Honolulu · Lumen Technologies9 mi · Operating
Servpac Puahale Data Center · Honolulu · Servpac12 mi · Operating

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Google Cable Landing Station at UH West Oʻahu data center in Kapolei?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Google Cable Landing Station at UH West Oʻahu data center?

No lawsuit over Google Cable Landing Station at UH West Oʻahu appears in the record we track as of October 2, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.

How much water does Google Cable Landing Station at UH West Oʻahu use?

No water withdrawal figure for Google Cable Landing Station at UH West Oʻahu is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates Google Cable Landing Station at UH West Oʻahu, and how big is it?

Google is the operator on record. We hold 55 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 4 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Google Cable Landing Station at UH West Oʻahu," updated October 2, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/google-uh-west-oahu-cable-landing-station-kapolei-hi.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.0 (September 21, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/google-uh-west-oahu-cable-landing-station-kapolei-hi, retrieved October 3, 2026.

Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.

Sources for this record

As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.

1.UH West Oʻahu campus proposed gateway for Google's $1B global fiber system · University of Hawaiʻi News · retrieved October 2, 2026
2.Committee Report 212(26), Resolution 26-165: SMA Major Permit for the Oʻahu Subsea Cable Telecommunications Project · Honolulu City Council, Committee on Zoning & Planning · retrieved October 2, 2026
3.BLNR submittal D-7: Grant of easement to Humuhumu Services, LLC and Starfish Infrastructure, Inc. for submarine communication cables off Kapolei · State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources · retrieved October 2, 2026
4.OSM Nominatim: University of Hawaii-West Oahu · OpenStreetMap · retrieved October 2, 2026

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