India, Oct. 26 -- Tata Communications plans to invest $400 million to $450 million to build a 10,000-km fibre network connecting major data centre and artificial intelligence (AI) hubs across India, as rising demand for computing infrastructure drives investment in the country's digital backbone.

The network will be developed in phases, beginning with the Mumbai-Pune-Hyderabad-Chennai corridor, the company said on October 26, 2026. Subsequent phases will extend connectivity to data centre hubs in eastern and western India, including Visakhapatnam, Bhubaneswar, Jamnagar and GIFT City.

The proposed network will provide high-capacity, low-latency connections between data centres, cloud infrastructure and AI computing facilities. It will al...