Google, on Wednesday, inaugurated its Ananta campus in Bengaluru — the company’s largest campus in India and one of its largest offices globally. Spanning 1.6 million sq ft, the new campus can house over 5,000 employees.
The company, which employs more than 10,000 people in India, said the country has been a strategic nerve centre in the tech discourse, evident in the thriving startup and app ecosystem and the digital public infrastructure. It has increasingly been building from India, for the world.
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Preeti Lobana, Vice-President and Country Manager, Google India, said, “As India has charted an ambitious new reality for its citizens with technology, Google has been its proud partner over the last 20 years. The new Ananta campus marks a significant milestone in our journey, marking the technological paradigm shift underway with AI.”
Focus areas
Looking ahead, Google India will focus on some core areas: empowering businesses and individuals through widespread AI adoption, ensuring AI transformation doesn’t stay on the margins of the economy but creates impact in its systemic areas such as agriculture, health and fintech, she continued.
“We aim to work in deep partnership with India’s vibrant research and startup ecosystem, while making our products become ever more helpful and ensuring that we’re taking Indians of varying talents along on this journey through skilling.”
In its blog, Google called Ananta one of its “most ambitious ground-up developments”. It is part of the company’s ongoing efforts to build with and for India and the world.
Ananta, located in Bengaluru’s Mahadevapura, is its fourth office in the city. The company also has offices in Hyderabad, Mumbai, Gurugram and Pune.
“For Google, India has always represented a very special opportunity, not just to reach millions of users within the country with our products and platforms, but also to have them shaped by Indian ingenuity, helping them become even more useful for the billions of users we create for globally,” it said.