This photograph taken on July 9, 2026 shows a staff walking past optical fibre cables at Sterlite Technologies Limited (STL) manufacturing facility in Maharashtra's Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar. At a bustling factory in western India, technicians work around the clock to turn glass into hair-thin fibre-optic strands destined for data centres powering the global artificial intelligence boom. Sterlite earlier this year announced a $1.1-billion multi-year order from a US hyperscaler -- a term meaning a large-scale cloud service provider -- helping drive its shares up 400 percent this year. (Photo by Indranil MUKHERJEE / AFP via Getty Images)