Tata Communications to Spend $450 Million on 10,000-km AI Fibre Network Across India

Key facts

• Tata Communications will invest nearly $450 million to build a 10,000-km high-speed fibre network connecting India's AI data centre corridors and key business hubs.
• The investment, disclosed in a stock exchange filing on October 26, will add around 6 petabits per second (Pbps) of network capacity between FY2030 and FY2036 and will be funded through operating cash flows.
• Branded an "AI Super Highway", the network will connect data centre clusters with hyperscalers, cloud service providers, global capability centres (GCCs), banks and other enterprises.
• The rollout will happen in three phases, starting with the Mumbai-Pune-Hyderabad-Chennai corridor, followed by expansion to eastern and western India's data centre ecosystems including Visakhapatnam, Bhubaneswar, Jamnagar and GIFT City.
• Tata Communications currently has 1.25 Pbps of network capacity, with utilisation of around 70-80%.
• The company's existing infrastructure includes more than 500,000 km of subsea optical fibre network and over 200,000 km of terrestrial fibre.
• Tata Communications MD and CEO Ganesh Lakshminarayanan said the data centre-to-data centre connectivity market could exceed $1 billion over the medium term.