India's Sterlite Technologies Ltd. (STL) is investing up to $100 million to strengthen its manufacturing capacity in the U.S.

STL announced at this week's SelectUSA Investment Summit that it plans to build out capacity and strengthen its foothold in connectivity solutions, including terminated optical fiber cables, for AI data centers and telecom customers in the U.S.

STL also claimed the investment is expected to create up to 500 jobs.

“By owning the entire value chain, from glass to data center portfolio, we are excited to enable our customers to build the physical foundation for the AI era”, STL CEO Rahul Puri noted. “This investment will ensure that the infrastructure required to build a strong AI backbone behind global intelligence is scalable and reliable.”

STL recently launched its Neuralis suite of connectivity products designed for AI-driven data centers. The platform was framed as a comprehensive connectivity foundation for modern data centers, which are increasingly being built around graphic processing unit (GPU)-intensive architectures and AI training environments. The firm described the offering as a “central nervous system” for these facilities, built to support the higher density and bandwidth requirements tied to AI and hyperscale computing.

The company said Neuralis is designed to respond to changing data traffic patterns in modern data centers, with AI workloads driving a surge in east-west traffic, where data flows between servers internally. Neuralis is engineered to support this shift through higher-density, high-speed connectivity.

STL also highlighted its vertically integrated manufacturing model with the release, touting that it manages the entire production life cycle spanning across glass preform fabrication, fiber drawing, cabling, and final connector assembly.