New Delhi, June 30 -- A two-hour drive out of Bengaluru brings you to Bidadi, where the city's glass towers give way to open skies and rolling hills. Once a sleepy outpost and little more than a pit stop along the Bengaluru-Mysuru highway, Bidadi is quietly reinventing itself. Long known for its manufacturing units and industrial sheds, it is now emerging as a hub for large-scale digital infrastructure projects. At the heart of one such transformation is NxtGen's sprawling data centre campus in Bidadi, where sovereign cloud and enterprise-grade AI aren't just buzzwords. They are being built, tested, and deployed at scale.

Perched atop an elevated plateau, you need to take a short drive that briefly makes your adrenaline spike. Once you r...