Tech giant Google opened Ananta, its newest and fourth campus in Bengaluru. The 148,644 sqm facility is one of Google’s biggest campuses globally and represents a significant investment in India’s tech ecosystem.
The new office will house teams from different Google divisions, including Android, Search, Pay, Cloud, Maps, Play, and Google DeepMind.
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Preeti Lobana, vice president and country manager of Google India highlighted the company’s 20-year presence in the country and how the new Ananta campus marks “a significant milestone in the company’s journey, marking the technological paradigm shift underway with AI.”
“Looking ahead, I see us focused 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 […] We have a unique opportunity to drive population-scale impact,” she added.
The Ananta campus will purportedly recycle 100% of its wastewater, harvest rainwater onsite and house one of the country’s biggest smart glass installations to minimise energy consumption.
Google Deepmind vice president Anand Rangarajan and Google Cloud India Global Delivery vice president Sunil Rao highlighted India’s startup environment and the growth of its digital public infrastructure in a company blog post.
“Increasingly, we have been building from India, for the world,” the post read.
Google has increased its engineering and product presence in India in recent years in order to develop new products and add features to a number of its current products.
