Google opens Ananta, company's biggest India office in Bengaluru

Ananta, Google's 4th office campus in Bengaluru can accommodate more than 5,000 employees working in different departments including Google Search, Maps, AI, Android, Google Pay, Cloud and more applications for multi-department collaboration.

Search engine giant Google on Wednesday (February 19) opened the Ananta (meaning 'limitless' in Sanskrit) campus, one of the company's biggest offices globally, in Bengaluru.

Spread over 1.6 million sqft, the Google Ananta campus located in Mahadevapura, is touted to be the largest Google office in India.

“As India has charted an ambitious new reality for its citizens with technology, Google has been its proud partner over the last 20 years. The new Ananta campus in Bengaluru marks a significant milestone in our 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," said Preeti Lobana, Vice President and Country Manager, Google India.

The campus grounds take inspiration from Bengaluru's Garden City tag. It features extensive landscaping and walking, jogging paths and a colourful sitting area—ideal for casual meetings and peaceful breaks.

V Narayanan, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) inaugurated the Google Ananta campus in Bengaluru on February 19, 2025.

Similar to other Google offices, the Ananta campus is eco-friendly. All the wastewater generated there is 100 per cent recycled. It also has a rainwater harvesting facility, and a large smart electro-chromic glass installed on the building to reduce electricity consumption.

Inside, the interiors have been designed with materials almost entirely sourced locally. Also, it has new tactile flooring that supports navigation for the visually impaired, with accessible amenities and thoughtful braille details.

Google Ananta office campus in Bengaluru.

For employees, Google Ananta houses a special child daycare centre (for children aged 6 months to 6 years), dedicated spaces for mental wellness, a 1000sqft plus gym for physical fitness, play area with courts for badminton, pickleball, volleyball, Cricket and more.

Google Ananta campus houses Child daycare centre for employees' kids.

GFit Gym at Google Ananta office campus in Bengaluru.

Dining area at Google Ananta campus in Bengaluru. 

The brand new 11-storey Ananta campus is the fourth Google office in Bengaluru. It can accommodate more than 5,000 employees working in different departments including Google Search, Maps, AI, Android, Google Pay, Cloud and more applications for multi-department collaboration.

"Each working floor in Ananta is organised like a city grid, with a network of streets for easy navigation. Individual ‘neighbourhoods’ foster collaboration while also giving individuals the freedom to focus within smaller nooks and booths," the company said.

Google Ananta office campus in Bengaluru.

Besides Bengaluru, Google has several office campuses in India including Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune with over 11,000 employees.

For the past several years, Google has been investing more in India and also collaborating with local startups and government agencies in the field of AI, agriculture, sustainability and health.

Google Ananta office campus in Bengaluru.

In October 2024, Google offered Agricultural Landscape Understanding (ALU) Research API to startups, NGOs and government agencies.

It also licensed its diabetic retinopathy AI model to healthcare providers and health-tech partners Forus Health and AuroLab in India.

Further, Google offered CircularNet, an open-source machine-learning computer vision model to Saahas Zero Waste (SZW), a Bengaluru-based environmental and social enterprise.

Preeti Lobana, Vice President and Country Manager, Google India at the inauguration of Google Ananta Campus in Bengaluru on February 19, 2025.

"We (Google) 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. I think we have a unique opportunity to drive population-scale impact and in the spirit of Ananta, the potential is infinite,” Lobana added.

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