Tata Communications has unveiled plans to spend between $400m and $450m to construct an AI Super Highway, a dedicated high-speed fibre network linking major data centre corridors across India.
The project will deploy roughly 10,000km of new long-haul optical fibre to establish high-capacity, low-latency links between key domestic computing sites, AI hubs, and international cable landing points.
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The nationwide rollout will take place across three distinct phases. Initial deployment centres on a high-density data centre route connecting Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, and Chennai.
Later stages will extend the network to emerging data centre clusters across the East Coast and Western India, incorporating locations such as Vizag, Bhubaneswar, Jamnagar, and GIFT City.
The infrastructure is tailored to serve global hyperscalers, neo-cloud operators, AI platforms, digital-native businesses, Global Capability Centres, and enterprises requiring high-bandwidth data centre interconnectivity.
Alongside the greenfield route build, the company is enlarging its existing National Long Distance and metro footprint to manage immediate data centre capacity requirements.
Tata Communications MD and CEO Ganesh Lakshminarayanan said: “We are excited about the opportunity in the India data centre-to-data centre connectivity, which we believe could evolve into a market exceeding $1bn over the medium term.
“With our planned investments, we are building on our existing strengths to create one of the most comprehensive data centre connectivity platforms in the market, positioning us to capture this significant growth opportunity.
“As we scale, a growing proportion of our expansion is being driven by anchor customer commitments and contracted demand, providing a strong foundation for sustainable growth, efficient capital deployment and long-term value creation.”
Domestic demand for facility-to-facility data links is expanding alongside cloud adoption, AI rollouts, and stricter domestic data localisation mandates.
