Global Internet major Google will set up its first campus in India, spread over 20 acres, in Hyderabad, a senior IT Department official of the Andhra Pradesh Government said on Wednesday.“Google will set up their India campus in Hyderabad. We have allotted 20 acres,” M Gopi Krishna, Special Secretary in Andhra Pradesh’s Department of IT and Communications, said during a presentation on the coming Hyderabad IT summit 2008.About the proposed investment by Google in this venture, he said the Internet giant would not like to share those details. He also said Infosys Technologies Ltd would set up its biggest campus in Hyderabad, where it had been allotted 450 acres, bigger than its campus in Mysore (which is around 335 acres).IT exports from Andhra Pradesh has been growing at around 50 per cent for the last three years to reach Rs 18,582 crore in 2006-07, and it is expected to be around Rs 25,000 crore in the current financial year, Krishna said.He said, “40 IT/ITES SEZs, spread over 2,000 acres in Hyderabad and tier-II locations in Andhra Pradesh, are in the offing. Visakhapatnam is going to be the next IT hub of the state.”
