Google Inks MOU With Telangana Government
As per the MoU, Google will be allocated 7.2 acres in Gachibowli, where it will build its own facility, one of its largest outside of the US.
Hyderabad | 12th May 2015
The Global Head for Google Facilities and Workplaces David Radcliffe and the Telangana Minister for Information Technology K Taraka Rama Rao had a meeting at the Google Headquarters in Mountain View.
An MoU was consequently signed between the Government of Telangana and Google Inc on Monday.
As per the MoU, Google will be allocated 7.2 acres in Gachibowli, the main IT corridor of Hyderabad, and Google will build its own facility.
This facility for Google in Hyderabad, the capital city of the state of Telangana, when fully built, will be one of its largest facilities globally with a built-up space of about 2 million sft.
The envisioned facility in Hyderabad will also be Google's first-ever own campus in India.
The facility is expected to house thousands of employees. Google expects it to be complete and fully operational in about 4 years, by the summer of 2019.
According to Radcliffe, about 12 months will be spent on planning, and the construction work is likley to start around the summer of 2016. The construction could take about two and a half years.
Jayesh Ranjan, Secretary of IT; Amarnath Reddy Atmakuri, Chief Relations Officer of the IT department; Katherine Wang, Manager for Public Policy Strategy and Diplomacy for Google; and Allison L Basker of Google were also present. (INN)
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