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- Amazon has opened its largest campus yet. Located in the financial district of Hyderabad, India, the 9.5-acre campus can accommodate more than 15,000 employees.
- Hyderabad is home to various American tech giants, including Google and Microsoft.
- The campus features interfaith prayer rooms, mothers' room, showers, quiet rooms, and a helipad.
- Amazon India Country Head Amit Agarwal calls the campus "a tangible commitment to that long-term thinking and our plans for India."
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Amazon has opened its biggest campus to date, and it's in the financial district of Hyderabad, India.
Hyderabad is home to various American tech giants, including Google and Microsoft. Amazon's Hyderabad campus opened on Wednesday, and it's the first office building outside of the US that Amazon owns. The 9.5-acre campus took three years to build and can fit more than 15,000 employees.
Amazon called the campus "a continuing reaffirmation of how India continues to be a key market as well as talent hub for Amazon" in its press release.
Bloomberg reports that both Amazon and Walmart are making moves in India, which it calls "the last major retail frontier still primarily reliant on small-scale neighborhood and mom-and-pop stores." Amit Agarwal, Amazon India's country head, says that ecommerce constitutes just 3% of India's total consumption.
Check out Amazon's new Hyderabad campus:
Welcome to Amazon's Hyderabad, India, campus.Noah Seelam/Getty ImagesAn armed police officer stood at the entrance of Amazon's new campus on its opening day.Noah Seelam/Getty Images
The campus is built on 9.5 acres of land; but spread out, the actual space of the campus is 68 acres.Noah Seelam/Getty Images
Amazon began operating out of Hyderabad, in the state of Telangana, in 2004. This campus is one of six Telangana offices housing one-third of Amazon's India workforce.Noah Seelam/Getty Images
Amazon's employee base in India is 62,000 employees, making it Amazon's second-biggest tech base after Seattle.Noah Seelam/Getty Images
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