Feb 4 (Reuters) – Google’s parent company Alphabet has leased an office tower in Bengaluru, India’s technology hub, and holds the option to occupy at least two more buildings, according to a lease reviewed by Reuters, signaling the company’s expansion into the country’s fast-growing technology sector.
The company signed a lease for more than 656,000 square feet of office space in Alembic City, a lease document from real estate data analytics firm Propstack showed.
On Feb. 3, Bloomberg News reported that Alphabet leased one office tower and acquired lease options for two others totaling 2.4 million square feet, citing sources familiar with the deal.
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If Alphabet occupies the entire space, the complex could house up to 20,000 additional employees, more than doubling the company’s presence in India, Bloomberg News reported.
A Google spokesperson told Reuters in an email that the company maintains a presence across India and that in 2024 it has leased a roughly 650,000-square-foot tower in the Bengaluru real estate complex cited in recent reports.
The company operates from three offices in Bengaluru and, last February, opened one of its largest offices in the world, in the same city.
The expansion comes at a time when US President Donald Trump’s tougher stance on immigration, including stricter scrutiny of H-1B visas and possible taxes on outsourced work, could accelerate the transfer of critical activities by US companies to India.
According to US government data, Alphabet is among the top sponsors of H-1B visas.
In October, Google announced it would invest $15 billion over five years to build an artificial intelligence data center in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, the company’s largest investment ever in the country.
