Turbidite, a landslide heading for the industry Sign in with LinkedIn 09 March 2021 | Alan Burkitt-Gray A year after he left GCX, Bill Barney is back in business, with a new company he hopes will shake up the data centre and subsea cable business. Alan Burkitt-Gray gets a preview of his plans “Why do you call it Turbidite,” I ask Bill Barney when we’re on a call to discuss the company he’s just set up. “A turbidite is an underwater landslide,” he replies from Hong Kong. He and his colleagues picked the geological term for the name of their new company.