Google has announced that its Gemini models will be available on Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), bringing its advanced AI capabilities to on-premises environments. The public preview is slated for Q3 2025.
With this move, the company aims to allow organizations to leverage Gemini’s AI while adhering to strict regulatory, sovereignty, and data residency requirements. The company is collaborating with NVIDIA to make this possible by utilizing NVIDIA Blackwell systems, allowing customers to purchase the necessary hardware through Google or other channels.
Sachin Gupta, vice president and general manager of infrastructure and solutions at Google Cloud, said in a NVIDIA blog post:
By bringing our Gemini models on premises with NVIDIA Blackwell’s breakthrough performance and confidential computing capabilities, we’re enabling enterprises to unlock the full potential of agentic AI.
GDC is a fully-managed on-premises (available since 2021) and edge cloud solution offered in connected and air-gapped configurations. It can scale from a single server to hundreds of racks and provides Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), security, data, and AI services. GDC is designed to simplify infrastructure management, enabling developers to focus on building AI-powered applications, assistants, and agents.
According to Google, bringing Gemini to GDC will allow organizations to use advanced AI technology without compromising their need to keep data on-premises. The GDC air-gapped product already holds authorization for US Government Secret and Top Secret missions, providing high levels of security and compliance.
Keith Townsend stated in a LinkedIn post:
For security-conscious industries like manufacturing, this is a game-changer. Let’s say you’re running a complex OT environment. Machines generate massive volumes of telemetry—temperatures, vibration patterns, run times. With Distributed Gemini Flash, you can deploy lightweight agents on-prem, behind your firewall, to analyze that data in real time.
Gemini models are designed to deliver breakthrough AI performance. They can analyze million-token contexts, process diverse data formats (text, image, audio, and video), and operate across over 100 languages. The Gemini API is intended to simplify AI inferencing by abstracting away infrastructure, OS management, and model lifecycle management. Key features include:
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to personalize and augment AI model output.
- Tools to automate information processing and knowledge extraction.
- Capabilities to create interactive conversational experiences.
- Tools to tailor agents for specific industry use cases.
In addition to Gemini, Google highlights that Vertex AI is already available on GDC. Vertex AI is a platform that accelerates AI application development, deployment, and management. It provides pre-trained APIs, generative AI building tools, RAG, and a built-in embeddings API with the AlloyDB vector database.
Lastly, the company also announced that Google Agentspace search will be available on GDC (public preview in Q3 2025). Google Agentspace search aims to provide enterprise knowledge workers with out-of-the-box capabilities to unify access to data in a secure, permissions-aware manner.
