Google on February 19 announced the opening of Ananta, its fourth and newest campus in Bengaluru, which is also one of the company's largest offices worldwide.
Google stated that the office, situated in Mahadevapura, a suburb in East Bengaluru, represents a "major milestone" in the tech giant's commitment to India, a market where it has invested billions of dollars to help bring hundreds of millions of people and local businesses online.
Ananta, a Sanskrit word for limitless, spans across 1.6 million square feet with a capacity of over 5,000 employees. The office will house teams from various Google units including Android, Search, Pay, Cloud, Maps, Play, and Google Deepmind among others.
It will feature neighbourhood-style workspaces that enable collaboration while also giving individuals the "freedom to focus within smaller nooks and booths", a central gathering space called Sabha, and tactile flooring that supports navigation for the visually impaired.
The campus also includes walking and jogging paths, meant for casual meetings and peaceful breaks.
Google stated that the campus features one of India’s largest installations of electro-chromic glass, along with a sculpted, fluid facade. It also recycles 100 percent of its wastewater and harvests hundreds of litres of rainwater on-site.
With over a billion users, India is Google's largest market in terms of user base for its products. It is also a critical region for the future growth of the search giant, especially in its artificial intelligence efforts.
"The new Ananta campus in Bengaluru marks a significant milestone in our journey, marking the technological paradigm shift underway with AI" said Preeti Lobana, Vice President and Country Manager, Google India.
Lobana said the company's focus moving forward will be on key areas such as "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 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" she said. Lobana took over as Google's India country manager in December 2024.
In recent years, Google has ramped up its product and engineering presence in India to build new products and feature enhancements across several of its existing products.
In 2024, Google is also said to have moved several technical and engineering roles from the United States to the country as part of a large-scale reorganisation.
With over 10,000 employees, India currently represents one of the largest employee bases for the search giant outside the United States. Apart from Bengaluru, Google also has offices in Gurugram, Hyderabad, Mumbai, and Pune.
Anand Rangarajan, Vice President, Google Deepmind and Sunil Rao, Vice President, Global Delivery, Google Cloud India said the campus is part of the company's ongoing efforts to "build with and for India and the world"
"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," the executives said.
"Ananta will further accelerate this mission, enabling us to deliver world-class products, foster deeper partnerships with our customers, and continue to focus on solving the most complex challenges facing users, businesses and startups in India and around the world," they added.
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