HYDERABAD: Google will set up its own campus in Hyderabad. The state government and Google signed an agreement on this, during the ongoing trip by chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy to the US.
The state government will allot a 20 acre land at Kokapet village, Rajendra Nagar Mandal on the city outskirts, where the $10 billion Internet search giant will build an Indian technopolis for more than 4,000 employees, the chief minister’s office said.
The MoU was signed by Shailendra Kumar Joshi, state IT secretary and Roy Gilbert, director-online sales and operations, Google. The $10 billion Internet search giant, which employs over 10,000 worldwide, operates from leased premises at the Hi-Tech City, where more than 1,000 employees work.
Google, which has a market capitalisation of $150 billion, has a R&D centre in Bangalore and offices in Delhi and Mumbai also. It runs the global engineering, online sales and service, Information systems, human resources and other support functions out of the Hyderabad facility, which is its second largest in India with 1,088 employees.
“Google also projected that it will further increase its headcount based on its business needs,” the state government said. Speculation was rife for months that Google may set up a $1-billion data centre in Hyderabad.
However, a company spokesperson denied Google was setting up a data centre, saying details could not be given out on the proposal.
source : DNA
The state government will allot a 20 acre land at Kokapet village, Rajendra Nagar Mandal on the city outskirts, where the $10 billion Internet search giant will build an Indian technopolis for more than 4,000 employees, the chief minister’s office said.
The MoU was signed by Shailendra Kumar Joshi, state IT secretary and Roy Gilbert, director-online sales and operations, Google. The $10 billion Internet search giant, which employs over 10,000 worldwide, operates from leased premises at the Hi-Tech City, where more than 1,000 employees work.
Google, which has a market capitalisation of $150 billion, has a R&D centre in Bangalore and offices in Delhi and Mumbai also. It runs the global engineering, online sales and service, Information systems, human resources and other support functions out of the Hyderabad facility, which is its second largest in India with 1,088 employees.
“Google also projected that it will further increase its headcount based on its business needs,” the state government said. Speculation was rife for months that Google may set up a $1-billion data centre in Hyderabad.
However, a company spokesperson denied Google was setting up a data centre, saying details could not be given out on the proposal.
source : DNA