Tata Comms to Build India's AI Super Highway for $450M

Tata Communications announced a strategic investment of close to USD 450 million to construct an AI super highway in India. This initiative involves building approximately 10,000 kilometers of new, AI-ready long-haul fiber across the country, aiming to create one of India's largest high-speed, low-latency network infrastructures. The network will connect key data center and AI hubs, integrating with Tata Communications' global network backbone. This investment is driven by the projected growth in India's data center industry, fueled by cloud adoption, AI deployment, and increasing data localization requirements. The project will be executed in three phases, starting with the Mumbai-Pune-Hyderabad-Chennai corridor, and aims to strengthen India's position as a global AI and cloud connectivity gateway.