Airtel Business to launch sovereign AI cloud with Google in “next few months”

Bharti Airtel’s Airtel Business is working on a sovereign AI cloud offering with Google.

The companies laid out plans at a recent roundtable with Airtel Business, Google Cloud, and ObserveNow.

As reported by TelecomTalk and citing Airtel’s CEO Sharat Sinha, Airtel’s “Own Cloud” offering will be launched in the next few months.

Head of customer engineering, public sector, and education for Google Cloud India, Pankaj Shukla added that the offering will combine hyperscale capabilities with robust compliance, including offering artificial intelligence (AI) services, and would be tailored for government organizations.

During Bharti Airtel’s Q2 2025 earnings call, managing director Gopal Vittal said: “We have made an investment to develop our own cloud. We are one of the largest cloud players for our own private needs. We have now signed off an investment, which is underway, which we will take to market in the next few months where we will be able to solve the problems of workloads that may not need such elastic requirements as the public cloud offers but to do it in a way that is more economical. I think we will have a full proposition around the cloud.”

Airtel and Google Cloud announced they were teaming up to bring cloud and AI products to Indian business in May 2024. Google has previously invested in Airtel, committing $1 billion to the Indian carrier in 2022.

Google has partnered with other companies globally on sovereign cloud offerings. It has worked with Thales in France on a sovereign cloud, and throughout 2024 Google signed deals with Indosat in Indonesia, DNeX in Malaysia, and Gulf Edge in Thailand.

Airtel operates multiple data centers across India through its Nxtra unit. The company is developing facilities in Noida, Pune, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru.