{"id":989644,"date":"2026-02-04T08:10:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989644"},"modified":"2026-02-04T08:14:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:44:39","slug":"alphabet-plans-major-india-expansion-as-us-tightens-visa-rules-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/04\/alphabet-plans-major-india-expansion-as-us-tightens-visa-rules-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet plans major India expansion as US tightens visa rules: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google-parent Alphabet \u200dis planning to dramatically expand \u200bits presence in India, with the possibility of \u2060taking millions of square feet in new office space in Bengaluru, India&#8217;s tech hub, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The company has leased one \u200coffice tower \u200cand purchased options on two others in Alembic City, a development in the city&#8217;s \u200cWhitefield tech corridor, totaling 2.4 million square feet, the report said, citing people familiar with the deal. <\/p>\n<p>Alphabet did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google-parent Alphabet \u200dis planning to dramatically expand \u200bits presence in India, with the possibility of \u2060taking millions of square feet in new office space in Bengaluru, India&#8217;s tech hub, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. The company has leased one \u200coffice tower \u200cand purchased options on two others in Alembic City, a development in the city&#8217;s \u200cWhitefield tech corridor, totaling 2.4 million square feet, the report said, citing people familiar with the deal. Alphabet did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}