Alphabet Growing Offices in Bengaluru as Part of US Exodus

Google’s parent company is planning a significant expansion in the Indian tech capital of Bengaluru.

Alphabet Incorporated has leased one office tower and purchased options on two others in the Alembic City complex for a total of 2.4 million square feet, Bloomberg reported, citing sources familiar with the deal. Employees are expected to start moving into the first tower in the coming months and construction on the other two is slated for completion next year.

Alphabet only confirmed the first office tower lease and disclosed its size at 650,000 square feet, telling Bloomberg it maintains a significant presence in several Indian cities including Bengaluru. “We have only leased one tower,” a spokesperson said, declining to comment on Alphabet optioning two more towers.

With the options reportedly under its belt, if the tech conglomerate chooses to take up all of the space, the company could have as many as 20,000 additional employees at the site, more than doubling its headcount in India. Alphabet currently has approximately 14,000 staff members in India with a global workforce of about 190,000.

With President Donald Trump’s visa restrictions making it more difficult for foreign workers to come to the United States, companies are increasingly looking to hire more employees abroad. India in particular has emerged as a popular hiring location, with firms like OpenAI and Anthropic recently planting flags in the South Asian country. Nasscom, India’s information technology industry trade group, estimates that so-called global capability centers operated by multinational corporations will employ 2.5 million people in India by 2030; the figure currently sits at 1.9 million.

Last year, Google opened its largest campus in Bengaluru, complete with cafeterias, indoor mini golf and pickleball courts. Since then, the tech giant has advertised hundreds of engineering jobs in the city, with many concentrating on its artificial intelligence pursuits.

— Chris Malone Méndez