Biden's push for fiber revives a Google dream

President Biden's plan to boost broadband across the country could also be a boon to Google's internet ambitions. Biden's plan emphasizes building fiber and steering funding to community-owned networks to ensure widespread connectivity and increase competition. That generally aligns with Google Fiber's new approach of partnering with cities willing to do the bulk of the infrastructure work. "One of the things we've learned is building infrastructure is long, slow, extraordinarily expensive, and fundamentally different than writing code for a new Google product," said John Burchett, Google Fiber head of policy, comms, and community affairs. "We may have started this process with a little bit of naïveté about how quickly we could impact the world."