[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-tata-communications-puts-450m-into-10000km-of-ai-fibre":10,"sections":45},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":34,"tags":35,"sources":40,"feedback":44,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":44,"total_tokens":44},12377,"tata-communications-puts-450m-into-10000km-of-ai-fibre","Tata Communications Puts $450M Into 10,000km of AI Fibre","Tata Communications will spend about $450M on 10,000km of long-distance cable linking India's AI data-centre hubs, according to a stock exchange filing.","Tata Communications plans to spend close to $450M on about 10,000km of new long-distance fibre across India, built to connect the country's AI data-centre hubs.\n\nThe Mumbai-based company, which sells data connections and cybersecurity services to businesses, set out the plan in a stock exchange filing, as reported Monday. Long-distance fibre is the optical cable that carries data between cities and regions, as opposed to the local links that reach homes and offices.\n\nThe spending works out to roughly $45,000 per km, our arithmetic from the two headline figures. The company did not frame it that way, and real costs vary with terrain and route.\n\nThe notable part is the target. This is a network aimed at data centres, the buildings full of servers where AI models are trained and run, rather than at consumers. Those sites need fast, dependable links to each other and to customers, and a carrier that already sells connectivity to businesses has an obvious reason to build them. The money goes to the pipes, not the chips.\n\nThe details reported so far do not include a timeline or a list of routes. Those would show whether this is a backbone for a few existing hubs or a bet on ones that do not yet exist.","[\"tata-communications\",\"fibre\",\"data-centres\",\"india\"]","2026-10-26T09:26:25.000Z","2026-10-26T10:20:57.458Z","2026-10-26T10:20:57.642Z","published",null,[24,30],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Remove the line \"the figure we have does not break down how much goes to cable, equipment or other work\", which admits missing source material, and cut or source the claims the source doesn't support (\"not capacity inside any single facility\", AI capacity built in clusters around a handful of Indian locations); also credit Reuters for the report on the filing and keep the per-km figure clearly labelled as our own arithmetic.","resolved",{"id":31,"reviewer":26,"round":32,"reason":33,"status":29},"editor-r2",2,"The source only says Reuters reported the plan 'on Monday', so the specific date 'October 26' is unsupported (and may not be a Monday); use 'Monday' or drop the date, and keep everything else as is.","general",[36,37,38,39],"tata-communications","fibre","data-centres","india",[41],{"name":42,"url":43},"The Next Web","https:\u002F\u002Fthenextweb.com\u002Fnews\u002Ftata-communications-450m-ai-fibre-network-india",0,{"sections":46},[47,52,57,62,67,72,77,82,87,92,97,101,106,111],{"name":48,"slug":49,"count":50,"latest_published_at":51},"AI","ai",7083,"2026-10-25T15:25:40.000Z",{"name":53,"slug":54,"count":55,"latest_published_at":56},"Security","security",1069,"2026-10-26T12:00:52.000Z",{"name":58,"slug":59,"count":60,"latest_published_at":61},"Policy","policy",589,"2026-10-26T11:05:02.000Z",{"name":63,"slug":64,"count":65,"latest_published_at":66},"Deals","deals",575,"2026-10-26T10:23:06.000Z",{"name":68,"slug":69,"count":70,"latest_published_at":71},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",303,"2026-10-26T11:31:21.000Z",{"name":73,"slug":74,"count":75,"latest_published_at":76},"Hardware","hardware",297,"2026-10-26T11:24:42.000Z",{"name":78,"slug":79,"count":80,"latest_published_at":81},"Science","science",218,"2026-10-23T22:48:25.000Z",{"name":83,"slug":84,"count":85,"latest_published_at":86},"Startups","startups",148,"2026-10-23T16:26:29.000Z",{"name":88,"slug":89,"count":90,"latest_published_at":91},"Software","software",145,"2026-10-26T09:30:00.000Z",{"name":93,"slug":94,"count":95,"latest_published_at":96},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",122,"2026-10-21T16:00:00.000Z",{"name":98,"slug":34,"count":99,"latest_published_at":100},"General",104,"2026-10-26T09:26:49.000Z",{"name":102,"slug":103,"count":104,"latest_published_at":105},"Gaming","gaming",88,"2026-10-22T22:25:33.000Z",{"name":107,"slug":108,"count":109,"latest_published_at":110},"Reviews","reviews",38,"2026-10-20T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":112,"slug":113,"count":114,"latest_published_at":115},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]