{"id":1027852,"date":"2026-08-11T07:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027852"},"modified":"2026-08-11T07:46:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:16:49","slug":"lightstorm-secures-%e2%82%b92500-cr-debt-for-ai-fibre-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/11\/lightstorm-secures-%e2%82%b92500-cr-debt-for-ai-fibre-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightstorm secures \u20b92,500-cr debt for AI fibre network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Network infrastructure provider Lightstorm has raised a \u20b92,500 crore debt facility from IndusInd Bank to build &#8220;AI fibre highways&#8221; connecting AI data centre clusters across India. The 10-year fully underwritten debt facility will fund the next phase of the company&#8217;s AI infrastructure expansion. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This entire raise of \u20b92,500 crore is going to fund what we think is the first large fundraise for AI cyber infrastructure across India,&#8221; Amajit Gupta, group CEO and MD, Lightstorm, told ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Network infrastructure provider Lightstorm has raised a \u20b92,500 crore debt facility from IndusInd Bank to build &#8220;AI fibre highways&#8221; connecting AI data centre clusters across India. The 10-year fully underwritten debt facility will fund the next phase of the company&#8217;s AI infrastructure expansion. &#8220;This entire raise of \u20b92,500 crore is going to fund what we think is the first large fundraise for AI cyber infrastructure across India,&#8221; Amajit Gupta, group CEO and MD, Lightstorm, told ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027874,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027852\/revisions\/1027874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}