Bangalore 02 sits in KIADB Aerospace Park, in north Bengaluru, and is Sify’s answer to the AI campus demand that Noida 02 and Chennai 02 already serve. The inauguration page describes two towers, 22+ MW of IT capacity and 4,500+ racks, AI-ready with liquid cooling, on a campus designed for 40+ MW. The current portfolio card lists 7 MW. Karnataka’s industries minister confirmed the inauguration in January 2026 and, per the trade report, Sify disclosed neither the capacity nor the investment — while the company’s own website was already publishing both. At 7 MW the building is 17.5% of its own campus, and Sify’s two Bengaluru sites together are 13% of Karnataka’s 90.72 MW.
1At a glance
2Seven, twenty-two or forty
| Figure | Source | MW | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| Campus design | Sify Infinit Spaces | 40+ | Aerospace Park campus, planned build-out |
| Two towers | Inauguration page | 22+ | 4,500+ racks, liquid cooled, AI-ready |
| Portfolio card | October 2026 | 7 | The figure the operator publishes as current |
| This registry | — | 7 | Live capacity counted; the other two are plans |
The three figures are consistent and they are not comparable. 7 MW is a delivered building. 22 MW is what two towers will hold. 40 MW is what the land can carry. A registry that counted 40 would be counting a permit.
Which is why the 22 MW figure deserves a closer look, because it is the one that sits between a fact and a plan. Two towers at 22 MW across 4,500 racks is 4.9 kW a cabinet. That is an enterprise density — the same class as Bangalore 01 in its 2022 state — attached to a campus that Sify describes as AI-ready with liquid cooling and, elsewhere in the same estate, advertises 130 kW a rack.
A campus billed as AI-ready at 4.9 kW a rack is AI-ready in the sense that a hall can be re-fitted later, not in the sense that it can host a training cluster on day one.
That is not a criticism — it is the sensible way to build. Enterprise halls pay the bills while AI demand firms up, and re-powering 4.9 kW racks upward is exactly what Bangalore 01 has already done.
But it means the 22 MW figure is an enterprise number, and a tenant planning a GPU deployment should not read it as 22 MW of liquid-cooled AI capacity. At 130 kW a cabinet, 22 MW is 169 racks, not 4,500.
3The inauguration that disclosed nothing
On 21–22 January 2026 a trade report carried the news that Sify would open a new data centre in Karnataka, with the state’s industries minister quoted as confirming the facility was expected to be inaugurated shortly. The same report states plainly that Sify had not disclosed capacity or investment figures.
That is worth recording because it is unusual, and because the number the minister did not have was public on the company’s own website: 22+ MW across two towers, 4,500+ racks, 40+ MW campus.
| Item | Disclosed | Where |
|---|---|---|
| The fact of the opening | Yes | State government and trade press, January 2026 |
| Location | Yes | KIADB Aerospace Park, north Bengaluru |
| Capacity at the announcement | No | Explicitly not disclosed to the minister |
| Investment | No | Not published at any date since |
| Capacity on the operator site | Yes | 22+ MW, 4,500+ racks, 40+ MW campus |
| Anchor tenant | No | No named customer for the tower |
For a market-intelligence file this is the useful asymmetry. A state can announce a facility, a minister can open it, and the only capacity number in existence can sit on a marketing page that nobody in the announcement process reads. Karnataka’s own pipeline reporting therefore carries this campus without a megawatt figure attached.
The absent investment figure matters commercially too. Bangalore 02 has no disclosed capex, so it cannot be placed on this registry’s cost ladder — the only Karnataka build that can is NTT Bengaluru 4 at ₹2,400 crore for 67.2 MW, or ₹35.7 crore per MW, the cheapest disclosed rate in the file. Karnataka land is cheap and Bengaluru power is not, and the absence of a Bangalore 02 number leaves the most important new campus in the state unpriced.
4AI-ready on an enterprise rack count
| Configuration | Racks at 22 MW | Density |
|---|---|---|
| As published | 4,500 | 4.9 kW per rack |
| Enterprise grade, higher density | 2,200 | 10.0 kW per rack |
| Modern AI hall | 169 | 130.0 kW per rack |
| Bangalore 01 today, as a benchmark | 600 | 8.0 kW per rack |
The same 22 MW supports three completely different businesses depending on the cabinet density. Sify has published the rack count, which fixes the plan at the enterprise end. The liquid-cooling specification leaves the door open to re-powering, and Bangalore 01 shows the company has already done exactly that at its other site.
There is a straightforward commercial read. Bangalore 02 is built to be re-powered. Two towers, 4,500 racks, a 40 MW site allowance and a liquid-cooling capability: the shell is sized for the AI decade, the halls are fitted for the enterprise decade, and the difference between them is a fit-out rather than a rebuild.
For a tenant that means a specific question. Not how many megawatts does the campus have — but which halls are already at high density, and can a new customer choose density or only take the standard build. The published material does not answer it.
5Bengaluru in a 90.72 MW state
Karnataka counts 90.72 MW across 19 records in this registry — a modest total for a state that hosts the country’s largest technology cluster, and a fraction of Maharashtra’s 786.4 MW or Tamil Nadu’s 296.6 MW.
| Operator or site | MW counted | Note |
|---|---|---|
| NTT Bengaluru 4 | 67.2 | Disclosed at ₹2,400 crore, the cheapest rate in the file |
| Sify Bangalore 02 | 7 | This record, live January 2026 |
| Sify Bangalore 01 | 4.82 | Electronic City, built 2006 |
| NTT Bengaluru 2 and 3 | 16.5 | Two smaller operating buildings |
| Sify, both sites | 11.82 | 13.0% of the state |
| Karnataka total | 90.72 | 19 records, additive only |
Two facts sit oddly together. Bengaluru is India’s technology capital and Karnataka is the fifth-largest state in this registry by counted capacity. The reason is not demand but land and power: the state’s capacity sits in a handful of large campuses, and NTT Bengaluru 4 alone is 74% of everything counted in Karnataka.
That concentration is the opportunity Sify is buying with Aerospace Park. A second hyperscale node in a city with 90 MW of capacity and the country’s densest enterprise demand is a straightforward bet — and it is the reason a 7 MW live building on a 40 MW site deserves a record of its own.
6Procurement
7Limits and open questions
- Three published capacities — 7, 22+ and 40+ MW. The registry counts 7 MW, the only delivered figure.
- No capex is published for Bangalore 02, so it cannot be placed on the cost ladder.
- The inauguration reported no capacity; the 22 MW figure comes from the operator\’s own event page.
- No anchor tenant is named and no pre-let is disclosed.
- The 4,500+ rack figure implies 4.9 kW a cabinet, which is inconsistent with an AI-hyperscale description and is treated here as a specification question, not an error.
- No PUE, no site area and no energisation schedule are published for either tower.
- What would close it. Capex, an anchor tenant, and a per-tower megawatt and density schedule.
8Sources
Sources: the Sify data centre portfolio page; the Sify Bangalore 02 inauguration event page with the two-tower, 22-plus MW and 4,500-plus rack specification; Sify Infinit Spaces Bengaluru and portfolio pages with the 40-plus MW campus; the Sify Europe and US Bangalore data centre pages; Data Center Pulse on the January 2026 inauguration; DataCenterLocations and Baxtel specifications.