India, July 2 -- Lightstorm has announced the signing of contracts to begin construction of a new submarine cable system connecting India, Malaysia and Singapore. The project, named I-2SEA, is being developed in partnership with Microsoft, Singtel and Tata Communications.

The cable system is designed to support growing demand for connectivity from hyperscalers, GPU infrastructure providers and enterprises running AI training and inference workloads across the India-Southeast Asia corridor.

I-2SEA will connect India's east coast to major data centre hubs in Hyderabad and Chennai, extending onward to Singapore, a key regional cloud and AI hub, and Malaysia's expanding data centre corridor centred around Kuala Lumpur.

The system will feat...