Google Brings Trillium TPUs to India to Power Local AI Growth

Google on Tuesday announced a major expansion of its AI infrastructure and investments in India, unveiling new local compute capacity, AI tools, and collaborations designed to strengthen India’s digital and AI sovereignty.

The company said it is deploying its AI Hypercomputer architecture, powered by Trillium TPUs, within India to support businesses and public sector organisations in training and serving advanced Gemini models locally. The move aims to support India’s data residency and sovereignty requirements while reducing latency for AI workloads.

“India’s developer community, vibrant startup ecosystem, and leading enterprises are embracing AI with incredible speed,” said Saurabh Tiwary, vice president and general manager of Cloud AI at Google. 

“To meet this moment for India, we are investing in powerful, locally available tools that can help foster a diverse ecosystem and ensure compliance with AI sovereignty needs.”

The company said that Gemini 2.5 Flash, already available to regulated Indian customers, now supports local machine learning processing. Google Cloud has also opened early testing for its latest Gemini models in India and committed to launching its most advanced versions with full data residency support, marking the first time Google Cloud will host such models locally.

The announcement also includes a suite of AI capabilities built for India’s context. These include batch support for Gemini 2.5 Flash to handle large-scale AI tasks cost-effectively, Document AI for automating document processing, and real-time grounding on Google Maps for location-aware responses.

In a move to strengthen India’s AI research ecosystem, Google Cloud and Google DeepMind announced a collaboration with IIT Madras to support the launch of Indic Arena, a benchmarking platform developed by the AI4Bharat centre. Indic Arena will allow users across India to anonymously evaluate and rank AI models on multilingual tasks unique to India’s linguistic diversity.

“At AI4Bharat, our mission is to build AI for India’s specific needs,” said Mitesh Khapra, Associate Professor at IIT Madras. “A critical part of this is having a neutral, standardised benchmark to understand how models are performing across our many languages. Indic Arena will be that platform.” 

Tiwary said the new TPU infrastructure and research partnerships reflect Google’s commitment to India’s long-term AI ambitions. “We’re committed to bringing our latest AI advancements to India faster than ever, with the controls and capabilities that reflect the country’s unique business and cultural context,” he said.

Google invited startups, research institutions, and government organisations to leverage the new Trillium TPU-powered infrastructure through Vertex AI, aiming to help build AI systems “by Indians, for Indians.”

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