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


FILE PHOTO: The logo of TATA Communications outside the company's building, where a data centre caught fire this month in New Delhi, India, June 24, 2026. REUTERS/Bhawika Chhabra/File Photo

Oct 26 (Reuters) - ⁠Tata Communications, which ⁠offers data connections and ‌cybersecurity to enterprises, announced investments of close to $450 million on ​Monday to build ⁠high-speed network cables ⁠connecting India’s AIdata-centre corridors.

Here are ⁠some ‌more details:

• The company will ⁠build around 10,000 kilometers of ​new ‌long-haul fiber cables across ⁠India

• ​The project will connectcloud services firms, global capability ⁠centres and other ​organisations such as banks to data-centre clusters

• Expansion will ⁠be in three phases: Mumbai-Pune-Hyderabad-Chennai corridor, the east coast and western India ​data-centre ecosystems, ⁠including Vizag, Bhubaneswar, Jamnagar and ​GIFT City

(Reporting ‌by Sai Ishwabharath ​B in Bengaluru; Editing by Mrigank Dhaniwala)

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