India, Oct. 26 -- Tata Communications plans to invest close to USD 450 million in building an AI-focused connectivity network in India, linking key data centre corridors through high-capacity, low-latency fibre infrastructure.

The company plans to deploy around 10,000 kilometres of new long-haul fibre across India to establish what it describes as an AI-ready connectivity network. Integrated with its global network backbone, the infrastructure is intended to provide end-to-end connectivity for AI workloads, with a focus on network performance, resilience and capacity.

The investment comes as India's data centre industry expands amid rising cloud adoption, AI deployment, data localisation requirements and enterprise demand for high-capac...