India's Tata Communications to spend $450 million on AI connectivity infrastructure

Tata Communications plans to invest nearly $450 million to develop high-speed fiber optic cables across India's artificial intelligence data centre corridors, according to a recent announcement on October 26. The telecommunications giant will lay approximately 10,000 kilometers of new long-haul fiber cables, connecting cloud service providers, global business centers, and financial institutions to data centres.

The expansion will occur in three stages: first, the Mumbai-Pune-Hyderabad-Chennai corridor, followed by the eastern coast and western India data centre ecosystems, including Visakhapatnam, Bhubaneswar, Jamnagar, and GIFT City.