Tata Communications plans $450 million investment for India's 'AI Super Highway'
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- ✓Tata Communications plans a $450 million investment to build India's "AI Super Highway." On Monday, October 26, the company said this project will add 10,000 km of new fibre.
- ✓MD Ganesh Lakshminarayanan said, "The India data centre to data centre connectivity is a market that should exceed $1 billion."
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The project will be rolled out by Tata Communications in a phased manner. The first phase will be the Mumbai-Pune-Hyderabad-Chennai corridor, a key AI and hyperscale growth route.
Tata Communications Ltd. announced that it will be building AI-ready connectivity infrastructure, which it calls India's "AI Super Highway", and has also planned an investment of $400 million to $450 million for the same.
In an interaction with CNBC-TV18 on Monday, October 26, the company's MD & CEO Ganesh Lakshminarayan said the "AI Super Highway" will include around 10,000 km of new long-haul fibre across India. It will be one of the country's largest AI-ready connectivity networks. The same will also be integrated with Tata Communications' global network backbone for end-to-end connectivity.
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