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August 25, 2020 06:10 pm

In South India, Amazon Builds Its Largest Office Yet

As Amazon signals its growth in India with its office in Hyderabad, its largest in the world, local business owners are pushing back. From a report: The austere building is hardly distinguishable in the landscape of glass and concrete buildings making up Asia's Silicon Valley, as Hyderabad, India, is known. It is one of Amazon's latest developments, the online retailer's largest office building in the world. With plans to cement its place as the center of gravity around which online retail revolves, Amazon has turned to India, the world's fastest-growing market for internet users. And it has picked Hyderabad, a city of nearly 10 million in India's south, as its base of operations there. But the project faces challenges, including pushback from local businesses and politicians. Hyderabad has emerged in a few short years as a technology and financial center and a beacon for young talent. The city, which saw the biggest surge in tech office space last year, is already a base in India for other multinational tech companies such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Apple, which spent $25 million for the development of its offices there. "Hyderabad is a known software tech talent center, and the government has been an enabler for us to have a campus this size," said Minari Shah, an Amazon spokeswoman. "This is an important confirmation of how India continues to be important to Amazon."

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