New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- Tata Communications Ltd is looking to team up with its sister company Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS), as the IT services giant embarks on a massive $6.5 billion investment to set up 1 gigawatt (GW) of new data centre capacity.

"Tata Communications has major strengths in the data centre to data centre connectivity; we are the market leaders in that. When it comes to TCS, there are several areas where we collaborate, and this (new data centre) will also be one of the areas of collaboration with TCS," Amur Lakshminarayanan, managing director and chief executive of Tata Communications, told Mint on Wednesday.

The Tata group's move-through TCS's planned investment-comes at a time when global tech giants are ramping...