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Sovereign cloud is destination next for big technology firms
Mint Chennai
|December 08, 2025
during Microsoft's global chief executive and chairman Satya Nadella’s India trip this week.
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Microsoft's Big Tech rival Google offers sovereign cloud to its clients in India. ISTOCKPHOTO
Microsoft's Big Tech rival Google already offers sovereign cloud to its clients in India.
“We've had Gemini models in India for a while, where the entire end-to-end data processing happens inside of Google's data centres in India,” said Mitesh Agarwal, managing director and chief technology officer for Asia-Pacific at Google Cloud, told Mint.
“We're also seeing demand for a second, extremely sensitive use case where customers do not even want the data to go out of their on-premise data centres. For this, we have a solution called Google distributed cloud, where Gemini models are provided within this hybrid secluded cloud itself,” Agarwal said.
This story is from the December 08, 2025 edition of Mint Chennai.
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