Google Puts Gemini 3.5 Flash Inside Air-Gapped Customer Sites in Sovereign AI Push
shashib · x · 2026-11-15
Google Cloud announced that Gemini 3.5 Flash is now generally available inside air-gapped Google Distributed Cloud sites (Oct 20 announcement) — sites with no connection to the public internet, the most controlled of Google's three sovereign deployment tiers.
- Three tiers: Data Boundary controls in public regions → country-specific clouds → on-premises air-gapped deployments.
- NVIDIA HGX B300 systems are also GA to serve Gemini and open models in these environments.
- A Gemini search service for these sites is in preview, with storage, indexing, and answers kept entirely on-site.
- Google's sovereignty framework lists 5 commitments, including customer control of unencrypted data; Google Cloud Dedicated is designed to run 12 months if its link to Google is cut.
- The AI stack is composable across Gemini, Gemma, and third-party models.
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