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Google Cloud making a major AI push in Brazil with TPUs, Gemini expansion and new tools
Google Cloud has announced a sweeping AI expansion in Brazil with local TPU availability, new Gemini capabilities, enhanced public sector tools and nationwide AI education initiatives.
Google Cloud has one of its most significant AI expansions in Latin America to date underway – with new infrastructure, tools and partnerships designed to accelerate the adoption of generative AI across Brazil’ s public and private sectors.
The updates signal Google’ s intent to deepen its presence in one of the world’ s fastest-growing technology markets and position Brazil as a regional hub for AI innovation.
Spanning nearly every pillar of Google Cloud’ s business – data-centre infrastructure, enterprise AI models, hybrid cloud, government solutions, workforce education, developer tooling and an expanding partner ecosystem – dozens of major Brazilian organisations across retail, healthcare, energy, finance and media are already deploying the company’ s Gemini models at scale, underscoring the country’ s rapid embrace of advanced AI technologies.
Bringing TPUs to Brazil for the first time
For the first time, Google is bringing its custom Tensor Processing Units( TPUs) to a Latin American cloud region. Sao Paulo will host Trillium, Google’ s sixthgeneration TPU architecture and its most energyefficient yet. The hardware delivers major performance improvements including four times the compute capacity and a two-thirds improvement in energy efficiency compared with previous generations.
By hosting TPUs locally, Google Cloud aims to dramatically reduce latency for model training and inference, a key limitation for businesses and start-ups working with large AI models. Local availability also lowers the cost of running advanced AI workloads and reduces dependency on overseas data centres.
For Brazil’ s fast-growing AI start-up community, the expansion represents a significant competitive advantage. Access to high-performance compute without long-term contracts allows emerging companies to experiment, scale rapidly and train larger models at a fraction of the cost. The move also marks one of Google Cloud’ s largest infrastructure investments in the region to date.
Gemini models arrive for sensitive and sovereign workloads
Beyond infrastructure, Google Cloud is expanding direct access to Gemini, its family of multimodal generative AI models.
Brazilian organisations will be able to store data at rest and run machine learning workloads entirely within Brazil www. intelligentcio. com INTELLIGENTCIO LATAM 35