Tata Communications to spend $450M on AI fibre network across India
THE SO WHAT
A $450M, 10,000 km AI-focused backbone across India is a bet that regional AI hubs will matter as much as centralized hyperscale regions. If you're building in or for India, assume lower latency and cheaper bandwidth between AI data centers and plan for more distributed, cross-region workloads instead of a single-region architecture.
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