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Published – August 27, 2026 09:47 pm IST – NEW DELHI
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As a result of datacentre buildout in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, the former’s coastline will soon hold new landing stations for subsea cables, which connect the global internet to India. On one hand, Microsoft Corp is participating in a consortium with firms like Lightstorm and Singaporean telco Singtel to land the 3,600km India-Southeast Asia (I-2SEA) Submarine Cable System, and Google has the globe-spanning America-India Connect system, which will land in Visakhapatnam, where the tech giant’s datacentre complex is being built.
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“As part of this AI hub… we’re bringing in multiple new subsea cables that will land on the coast of Andhra Pradesh around the Vishakhapatnam area,” Alexander Smith, a Google executive who oversees several of the firm’s physical infrastructure projects in the Asia Pacific region, told The Hindu in an interview on Thursday (August 27, 2026).
